From ice fields to oil fields, a camera crew trails hiking guide-director-producer David Lavallee as he follows an imaginary drop of water from the peak of Western Canada’s Mount Snow Dome down through the contaminated waters of the Anthabasca River. His goal is to point out the oil industry’s dependence …
A new, sweetly effective Disney take on the A.A. Milne stories, though delightfully retro in its loyalty to the charming tales and their original drawings. Kids (ten and under) can have a fine time without having wow effects and action shoveled at them. John Cleese narrates like a nice British …
A Dutch teen (Martijn Lakemeier) risks his life and family to help a downed RAF pilot evade the Germans in 1945. In strong, wintry settings, it’s a dated cliché museum from director/writer Martin Koolhoven: predictable twists, surging music to coax feelings, a glaring Nazi brute, animal love and loss, young …
More ace work from tireless Paul Giamatti. He is a money-pressed lawyer who bends the rules to help himself and a codger (Burt Young). But the core story is his ripening bond with the guy’s grandson, whom Giamatti coaches on an upstart wrestling team. Simmering, young Alex Shaffer puts some …
A teacher flees college scandal and in Paris finds romance and a murder plot. Pawel Pawlikowski directed the French thriller. With Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig.
French star Fabrice Luchini is like a pert mouse that substitutes charm for fur. His Jean-Louis is an aging, nice, dull, rich mama’s boy who breaks loose in the old house once mama dies. From the fiercely vital Spanish maids on the top floor, he gains a social conscience and …
An ambitious superhero movie, one willing to invoke the Holocaust in its treatment of a feared and persecuted minority. This time it’s mutants instead of Jews, except for one mutant who is also a Jew, and who is looking to avenge his mother’s death at the hands of the Nazis, …
Eastern European mobster sets up sham marriage between his lovely daughter and, get this, a pet photographer, in order to get her U.S. citizenship. Complications ensue. Rob Schneider! Kathy Bates! Katherine McPhee! Mena Suvari! If you watch the trailer and don't feel like you've seen the film already, then this …
Diablo Cody, staking her claim as the Voice of Generation X, brings us the story of a young-adult author (well, a ghostwriter named Mavis, gamely played by Charlize Theron) who tries to go home again. You’d think — cynical, savvy X-er that Mavis is — she would know better. But …
A full tankard of gemütlich-kitsch about the ripening genius Goethe (handsome Alexander Fehling) who rouses his sleepy muse by falling hard for the provincial beauty Charlotte Buff (totally engaging and sexy Miriam Stein, who has a bold touch of Debra Winger). Philipp Stölzl’s beautifully outfitted and photographed movie is in …
Comical fantasy of medieval chivalry and adventure. David Gordon Green directed, with Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Toby Jones, Justin Theroux, and Charles Dance.
At first, Your Sister's Sister plays like a comedy of very modern manners, everything so up to date that antique notions of "good" and "bad" can be replaced safely by "gratifying" and "weird." Jack (a bearish Mark Duplass) is a sweet, modern guy, but he's sad, because his brother died …
A zookeeper (Kevin James) tries to win back the girl who dumped him (for being a zookeeper) by taking dating advice from the animals under his care. It’s hard not to imagine what could have been made from such an insane premise, especially given the anodyne goings-on of what actually …