A trained assassin (Simon Pegg) looks on as a dentist (Sullivan Stapleton) and his wife (Teresa Palmer, slowly going from drab to fab) kill a patient (Alice Braga) to cash in on an insurance policy switcheroo. Director Kriv Stenders divulges the murder, chases it with a discursive second act flashback, …
Three troubled Israeli siblings get a little more troubled when their mom dies and then their dad tells them that he might not actually be their dad. Road trip! Written and directed by Shemi Zarhin. In French and Hebrew with English subtitles.
The bad guys are winning. The disappeared get dissolved in diesel. And yet some folks keep fighting. Written and directed by Bernardo Ruiz.
Or, Heavy Hangs the Head That Used to Wear the Crown. For 40 years, starting in 1970, chef Georges Perrier held court in his private, prosperous kingdom: Le Bec Fin, a classic French restaurant in Philadelphia. The kind of place where the sauce is everything, and butter and cream are …
Simultaneous spoof, homage, one-upping, and debasement of James Bond, delivered with gory, self-conscious glee by the inimitable Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) at his Matthew Vaughniest, working once again from a graphic novel by Mark Millar. Yes, there are British spies who dress nattily and imbibe impeccably, but they …
"If marriages are made in heaven, then welcome to hell."
At one point in Terrence Malick’s heady huffing of the sour stink of success, his protagonist (a skull-faced Christian Bale) muses, “So much love inside us that never gets out.” So many words, too — like nearly every line of any importance here, the observation remains unspoken. It’s probably for …
A young boy’s desire for an old-fashioned family Christmas unleashes terror for the holidays. One-third sitcom, two-thirds actors being attacked by toys, elves, and other assorted CG sock puppets, and 100% unwatchable. Not for a second does the viewer fear for any of the characters’ well-being, thanks to director/co-writer Michael …
Krisha Fairchild stars as a woman under the influence of her director’s oppressive stylistic constraint. A silver-haired lioness who has spent the past decade detouring the road to redemption parks before her sister’s home where the Thanksgiving reunion dinner will take place, the tail of her garment flapping precariously outside …
A young man returns to his hometown in search of a wife. Directed by Basil Joseph.
Miss Shepherd, the titular lady — played without a trace of self-regard or emotional grasping by Maggie Smith — does not have much of a life. It’s hard to get much going when you live in a van, harder still when you’re old and slightly daft and imprisoned by your …
Surface appearances point to a basically nice guy, leaving the viewer to spend a good chunk of Lamb questioning the intentions of a titular 47-year-old (played by writer-director Ross Partridge) who talks an out-of-favor pre-teen (Oona Laurence) who asks to bum a cigarette into accompanying him on a road trip …
Remember kids: rock and roll may feel like the breaking of chains and the shucking of shackles, but it’s not. It’s a racket, a business, a con, a sham, cooked up by businessmen in suits to separate teenagers from their money. Or at least, that’s what I heard. This here …