It’s Of Mice and Men meets Desperate Hours when a pair of thickheaded criminals on the lam take refuge in the home of negligent sawbones Rich (Chad Michael Murray) and his family. The main draw is Bruce Willis in a supporting role as Rich’s competitive dad. It’s not the worst …
The latest family affair from Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup, 13 Moons) is a product from another time. On the surface, it could very well have been a black-and-white low-budget indie that was left lounging in a time capsule since missing its release window some 35 years ago. But the …
Last year’s pawn shop acquisition of Dark Blue was almost enough to call for a reevaluation of David Ayers’ screenplays. His violent professional friendships, and the profane musings that entail between passenger and driver never were my bag — better a twentieth viewing of Walter Hill’s (em>48 Hrs. than a …
Armed with only one word — Tenet — and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Two or three things I learned from this made-for-YouTube jaunt through Paris. Her’s might not have been the first celebrity sex tape leaked to an eager public, but credit media personality Paris Hilton for holding the title “Architect of Selfie.” A 24/7 walking fashion show — she’s to blame for …
Did you hear the one about Samuel (Ed Asner), the Holocaust survivor who gave shelter to straight-off-the-farm Holocaust denier Casey (Margot Josefsohn)? She’s the homeless teen he found dozing in a Jewish cemetery, a black leather jacket with a swastika painted across the back acting as her blanket. The jacket …
With six years sobriety in tow, Abel Ferrara awards himself with an autobiographical AA coin of a movie. His sixth collaboration with Willem Dafoe, this is a typical family affair for the controversial filmmaker. Filmed in the director’s apartment in Rome, Dafoe stars opposite Ferrara’s wife (Cristina Chiriac) and three-year-old …
One can’t wait for the election to end. If the best man wins, it will bring down the curtain on countless hours spent in the service of tRump-bashing docs so that we may once again rejoice in the simpler virtues of narrative storytelling. Having said that, Alex Gibney’s (Enron: The …
It’s more of an outright faceplant than a trip when duelling fusspots Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon retrace Odysseus’ ten-year journey from Troy to Ithaca in six days. Lunches consist of three-camera shoots with a side of bumpy cutaways to the kitchen or waitstaff, brought in to trim the open …
Given all the anti-Trump dogma that’s crossed my screen over the past four years, it’s time to give Dinesh D’Souza, this administration’s answer to Leni Riefenstahl, his due. Listen closely: there’s as much Pesci as President in the voice artist hired by D’Souza to ape his adored liberator. (The celebrity …
Floria Sigismondi (The Runaways) tries her hand at tightening the terror with this modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw". Mackenzie Davis and Finn Wolfhard star.
Not long before the letters BLM became indelibly inked on our collective consciousness, the death of two African American youth, killed by the Chicago Police, forever impacted the lives of another pair of millennials: social worker Janaé Bonsu and fellow revolutionary (and celebrated “Raptivist”) Bella Bahhs. A forward-looking dissenter, Janaé …
Will Eubank trades in the cramped, outmoded U.S. Air Force base that played home to extraterrestrial biological entities in his previous film, The Signal, for an underwater research lab imagineered in a style that evokes a crumbling ‘80s health club. There’s nothing alien about this plot: a subterranean tremor does …
“If you leave me, I will have to kill you,” Undine (Paula Beer) threatens her unfaithful beau Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) over coffee. As with many of the film’s principal locations, the outdoor cafe, situated across the street from the museum where Undine freelances as a historian and tour guide for …