Like the subject it represents, documentarian Sini Anderson’s cheerily rough-around-the-edges fanzine account of Kathleen Hanna, the punk rock visionary with the Valley girl accent, is focused, engaging, vastly profane, and paced at a lightning clip. The undisclosed reason for Hanna’s sudden departure in 2005 as lead singer of the influential …
Contrived shit doesn’t get much nuttier. In the not-so distant future, a white, upper-class family plans on spending the Purge — a ‘countrywide catharsis’ where, for one 12-hour period every year, murder is decriminalized — in the safety of their steel-plated mansion. How do you go wrong with a foolproof …
The shady S&M club’s one-year, no-cancellation contract prohibits subs from initiating activity and insists that an element of surprise be maintained: members never know exactly where or when the bondage babes will appear to administer a thrashing. Within five minutes of establishing the rules, director (and one-fifth of the writing …
Technicolor is the warmest color in Bruno Barreto’s (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) euphoric return to ‘50s style CinemaScope melodrama. Filmed in the manner of Minnelli (the father, not Liza), this romantic tragedy — adapted from a novel by Carmen L. Oliveira — is based on the lives of …
Amiable, empty-headed, tender-hearted geriaction flick about a retired agent (Bruce Willis) whose lady love (Mary-Louise Parker) and best buddy (John Malkovich) think he needs to get back in the game. (She thinks he's a little bit boring as a civilian; he thinks their lives are in danger. They're both right.) …
The latest from sensitive thug Jason Statham doesn't lack for ambition. Yes, there is plenty of arm-twisting and face-punching and general badassery. But there's also London's Chinese underworld, London's Russian underworld, human trafficking of various kinds, war crimes, self-treated PTSD, a nun on the run from her past and herself, …
A group of muscled thugs, identified only as “the 5 Steroids,” stow a soapdish containing five varieties of psychoactive drugs in a tree. Tacky slacker Elias (Agustín Durán) finds it and decides to conduct a “social experiment” by asking four friends to join him in ingesting the stash and studying …
Larry Smith is the only true American hero to emerge from cinema this year. For Smith, movement is life. After living with Parkinson’s for 20 years, the small town baker and retired police officer decides to confront motion disorder head-on by doing “something big before it’s too late.” In Miller’s …
The RiffTrax crew gets ambitious, taking on a film that is, if not classic, then at least canon.
Can you watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians for free on the Internet and make fun of it yourself? Sure you can. But that's not the American way. Better to pay the professionals at RiffTrax to make fun it for you.
Dear Teenagers: true love does not always conquer all, but sometimes it makes for a good story. Here Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) gets a shot at playing a star-crossed lover.