First time director Nicole Gomez-Fisher’s amateurish attempt at autobiography takes us on a Sex and the City-inspired journey through a dysfunctional life. (Stop me if you’ve heard this one a few dozen times before.) As her on-screen correspondent, Alexis Fish, Gina Rodriguez (Go For It, The Bold and the Beautiful) …
Kickball! Also: another take on the David & Goliath story besides the one that Malcolm Gladwell hurled at our foreheads in David & Goliath.
Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette in an attempt to wrest from her the secret formula that will allow him to turn his grey Naughties into true blue Smurfs.
Race car rivals! In a film not directed by Ron Howard! With Noah Wylie as the guy who decides whether or not to put Snake and Mongoose stickers on Hot Wheels cars!
Those expecting two hours of non-stop punches and explosions are in for a rude awakening. Former stuntman-turned-writer/director, Ric Roman Waugh, rocks Dwayne Johnson’s world with a focused piece of genre storytelling that doubles as a dead-on assault against the war on drugs. Under federal laws known as mandatory minimums, Johnson’s …
Charismatic youngster Miles Teller stars in yet another substance abuse pic. In Project X, he played Miles Teller (!), college kid chasing high school skirt while getting wasted at a house party. In 21 & Over, he played a college dropout on a quest to get his old high school …
Athletes Domenico Anzini, Epiphanie Nyirabarame, Domenico Scipioni, Cliff Scott, and Julie Weiss run the streets of Rome. Directed by Jon Dunham.
Casting the great and powerful Oz (James Franco, making quick reparations for his colorless work on The Wiz prequel) as a tin-grinned hustler opposite a pair of former Disney cuties (Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) in what amounts to a Girls Gone Wild video with a better DP, will forever …
Director J.J. Abrams at his most J.J. Abrams-y. A lens flare light show. A Spielberg homage (the opening is taken straight from Raiders of the Lost Ark). Deft nostalgia-mining coupled with equally deft placement of the extracted gems in the crown of his new creation (a Tribble plays a key …
He (Javier Pereira) is what’s known as a “cool guy,” a salt-of-the-earth type to his male friends and a bastard to every female He meets. He finds his latest prey, She (Aura Garrido), while out clubbing. After a few minutes of meaningless small talk, the seasoned horndog not only expresses …
For his first American film, South Korean director Chan-wook Park, best known to American audiences for The Vengeance Trilogy, cast Mia Wasikowska in the role generally reserved for a pale Asian chick whose face is frequently obscured by stringy black hair. A mysterious relation (Matthew Goode) shows up at his …
The most exciting 3D thrill ride of the summer contains no special effects and the only costumes these heroes don are wet suits. Directors Justin McMillan and Christopher Nelius follow tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time World Champion Tom Carroll on their quest for liquid nirvana. Seated before a bank …
Screens as part of the German Currents Film Festival.
Did you find Taken's tale of a SuperDad cutting a swath of destruction through the criminal underworld in pursuit of his daughter just a tad too down-to-earth and cuddly? This should fix that. On a side note, the trailer is an early leader for the highest BRAAAAHMS per minute ever.
As if needed, further proof that the western is indeed dead. A reformed whore with a heart of lead (January Jones), a hell-bent religious cult leader (Jason Issac), and an unorthodox lawman (Ed Harris) juggle bullets in a modern day shoot-’em-up that tries for dark poetics, only to unfold like …