Annette Bening stars as the sadly forgotten Hollywood bad girl, Gloria Grahame, an actress whose assertive sensuality lit up the screen in such memorable films as It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Heat, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she took home a deserved supporting-actress Oscar. Nobody looks …
Valued assistant or obsequious stooge? Tony Zierra’s documentary answers the question. On the surface, Leon Vitale was to Stanley Kubrick what Jilly Rizzo was to Frank Sinatra: a camp-following aide-de-camp, always eager to empty the boss’s ashtrays or gratefully accept another twenty lashes from his master’s flailing tongue. (According to …
Anime from Akiyuki Shinbô, not to be confused with the Takeshi Katano crime classic.
Charlie Day is a nice-guy teacher (with a sweet kid and a pregnant wife) in a high school that demands educators who look like Ice Cube and talk with his brand of menace and authority. But even Mr. Cube is not immune to the degradations of Senior Prank Day, and …
Niels Arden Oplev directs a sequel to the 1990 thriller about scientists who experiment with being dead.
Director and co-writer Sean Baker’s lavender-tinted, tragedy-tinged followup to Tangerine trades Southern California for Florida but keeps its focus fixed on the margin and the sustaining dreams of its denizens. Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) is a six-year-old spitfire spending her summer vacation at The Magic Castle motel outside of Disney World …
A compilation of the best short films on Fly fishing that 2017 has to offer.
Jackie Chan stands curbside within inches of an exploding car, yet it’s his daughter inside the store who falls victim to an IRA terrorist attack. Martin Campbell’s implausible staging of the revenge-motivating blast sets the tone for this dopey but nonetheless entertaining goulash of equal parts Death Wish, Taken, and …
South Korean historical drama (presumably with a lot of kicking and swordplay) set during the Qing dynasty. Directed by Hwang Dong-hyeok.
John Lee Hancock serves up a biopic of McDonald’s king Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton, just restrained enough as a ravenous dog in a human suit) that is not unlike the restaurant’s product: precisely prepared, brightly packaged (oh, that shot of the golden arches reflected in Kroc’s windshield as he pulls …
A must for fans of upstanding citizenry. In the eyes of the NYPD, Frank Serpico was the scourge of the boys in blue serge, an undercover cop who narced on his crooked cronies. They made a movie about it called Serpico, and it’s clear from this documentary that director Sidney …
Trudie Styler makes her feature directorial debut with this comedy about a lad who runs for homecoming queen at an ultra conservative high school. With Abigail Breslin, AnnaSophia Robb, Alex Lawther, and Bette Midler. Bette Midler?
Narrative account of the real-life travels of Gabriel Buchmann, a student who spent the year before going to college traversing the globe.
Based on one of the greatest stories never told, this historical drama chronicles the life of a South Indian ruler of the Satavahana Empire in the 2nd century CE. Krish Jagarlamudi directs.
As a whodunit, writer-director Aaron Katz’s LA-gorgeous story of movie stars (Zoe Kravitz) and their devoted assistants (Lola Kirke) is a bit flimsy-fake — you know, like a movie set — relying as it does on shoddy police work, a couple of glaring coincidences, and a suspect who goes from …