Hokey gothic fun. John Cusack is darkly brooding and boldly dying as writer Edgar Allan Poe. In foggy Baltimore he sleuths a serial killer, a creep “inspired” by his stories. It’s Theatre of Blood, if not quite so campy: breathless ambushes, underground passages, ravens, and an absurdly plot-driven story. Director …
Red Dawn — the enjoyable 1984 kiddie Cold War thriller from John Milius that forms the basis for this rancid, unnecessary reboot - opens with the memorable (and chilling) image of a group of helpless high school students looking on as invading paratroopers gently touch down outside their classroom window. …
Supernatural debunkers (Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy) investigate a blind psychic (Robert De Niro) who has recently come out of a long retirement. Written and directed by Rodrigo Cortés.
Producer George Lucas’s passion project about the Tuskegee airmen is competent but not ambitious. It ought to be ambitious. The dogfights, exciting as they are, take up half the screen time and nearly all of the drama. But it’s the battle on the ground — against a military that accepted …
A Pakistani Wall Streeter gets a bad case of culture clash in the latest from director Mira Nair.
Old man paints young boobs. Well, not the boobs themselves, but rather, pictures of the boobs. Also, the young lady attached to them (a tempramental Christa Theret). Of course, when the old man is Renoir, and the setting is the impossibly beautiful French countryside, the enterprise feels a bit classier. …
Milla Jovovich's battle against The Umbrella Corporation continues. As does her battle against the undead.
The Third World lives in almost every big city. Here it is the African diaspora in Brooklyn, with a wannabe musician (Alassane Sy) from Senegal and the troubled beauty (Sky Grey) he rescues. Andrew Dosunmu directed in docu-dots of story vignettes, which add up beyond plot. A great bonus is …
Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years. A monarch …
The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, and Santa Claus ask Jack Frost to help them take on a nasty named Pitch. Directed by Peter Ramsey.
In the not-too-distant future, a retired jewel thief in the early stages of dementia is given a robotic servant by his children. The gift is intended to place the kids' minds at ease while at the same time assisting the old curmudgeon through his golden years. Initially resentful, Dad warms …
“Rock is dead!” declares evil band manager Paul Giamatti, and Rock of Ages just dares you to disagree. Do you ever find yourself missing the glory days of dinosaur rock (Journey), glam metal (Poison), and power ballads (REO Speedwagon)? Would it help if we blended all that up and used …
It ain't easy out there for an Enlightenment physician in medieval-minded 18th-century Denmark. You have the people — so in need of your tender regard for the masses, yet so easily led astray by monsters who play on their fear and superstition! You have the king — such a trusting …
Paul Dano plays Calvin, a writer struggling with his latest novel — and his love life. In creating the character of his ideal woman, he also wills her (Zoe Kazan) into existence.
Two broken people — massive, insensate Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) and wounded, miserable Stephanie (Marion Cotillard, scrubbed of both makeup and glamor) — warily, even unconsciously approach the prospect of supplying one another's deficiencies. Not out of charity, but out of ordinary, human need and the ordinary, human response to that …