The lead Holocaust contender in this year’s awards derby is more stallion than nag. When a denier levels a lawsuit against her publisher, it’s up to author and historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) to prove the existence of the Holocaust. The first film in 14 years from director Mick Jackson …
What happens when a van containing a group of hopeful border-jumpers breaks down a few miles outside of Tijuana? Nothing we haven’t seen in dozens other well intentioned cautionary fables. Never mind revenge or collecting a bounty: the only motivation the screenwriters endow cartoon bad guy Jeffrey Dean Morgan with …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "Sixteen year old Juan Carlos ran away from an abusive home and lived on the streets of Mexico City for years before finding his way to IPODERAC, a unique group home and social …
Penn Jillette (who also scripted) and Missi Pyle star in a horror comedy from Adam Rifkin (Detroit Rock City, The Last Movie Star.
Johnny Knoxville did it better. A career military nutjob (Robert De Niro) observes his future granddaughter-in-law texting at his wife’s funeral and decides a Hangover-style road trip is just what his uptight grandson (Zac Efron) needs to derail the pending nuptials. The script rat-a-tats like a gatling gun misfiring one …
D.J. Caruso co-writes and directs this tale of an old house with a locked room in the attic.
Disney Junior and Fathom Events conspire to bring you Mickey and the Roadster Racers. Somewhere Uncle Walt is spinning in his cryogenic chamber.
Canned adaptation of a Broadway musical based on the lead-footed 1992 Disneypic about the New York City paperboy strike of 1899.
Four brothers take wave-riding to new heights in Rob Bruce's surfing documentary.
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival's Cine Gay Showcase. According to the festival brochure, "After refusing a series of prestigious awards from all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in …
Inert entry in the YA dystopia franchise about a post-apocalyptic Chicago where people are divided by chief character trait — candor, erudition, courage, etc. (And where some people “diverge” by embodying all of them.) By this point, the city’s order has collapsed: the bad old boss is dead, but the …
As a Christian allegory, director Scott Derrickson’s entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is impressively thorough. Proud and worldly neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch, cockily joking even as he fumbles with his accent) is cast down from his throne, seeks healing from a keeper of ancient spiritual wisdom and …
Animated retelling of a lost 1966 Doctor Who adventure that re-uses the surviving original audio.