Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love, girl doesn't. Girl agrees to be boy's half girlfriend.
Documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who founded the Hare Krishna Movement.
Calling Jian Liu’s twisty follow-the-stolen-moneybag story an animated film might seem a bit of an exaggeration. Many shots are still illustrations adorned with a single moving element: a rising wisp of smoke, a flashing neon sign, a lone automobile. But at least the stills look good: clean, unbusy settings full …
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. The program notes describe it as, "Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and best-selling author Sebastian Junger and his Emmy-winning filmmaking partner, Nick Quested, chronicle Syria’s descent into the unbridled chaos that allowed the rise of the Islamic State, better known …
Family drama from Vietnam directed by Quang Dung Nguyen.
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. The program notes describe it as, "Herd explores how horses can guide us to heal the chaos within our lives. During a weeklong off-grid nature retreat, deep in the heart of British Columbia’s horse country, eight people participate …
Prequel to Hindi XXL?
Ryan Reynolds is very good at layering a hard candy shell of wisecracks over a gooey caramel center of emotion. Samuel L. Jackson is very good at snapping between glowering menace and cackling affability. And director Patrick Hughes is very good at letting the viewer know he’s hip to his …
Hallie Meyers-Shyer, daughter of Nancy Myers (What Women Want, It's Complicated) steps behind the camera for the first time on this Reese Witherspoon comedy. Here's hoping the apple fell at least 20 football fields from the tree.
Richard Mullane directs this documentary short about horse whisperer Jean François Pignon that screens prior to Herd at the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival.
Director and co-writer Scott Cooper re-teams with his Out of the Furnace star Christian Bale to tell the story of Captain Joseph J. Blocker, a man of war facing a violent transition — physically and otherwise — to peacetime living. After a lifetime spent killing people because those were his …