Someone has to pay the hospital bill after a fall from the titular topiary sidelines Coumba’s (Dior Ka) older brother. Their father not only deems her time better spent doing her brother’s work than in a classroom, but also (in order to raise quick cash) arranges to marry off Coumba’s …
The Targeted Village targets the Japanese government’s attempt to coax and silence residents of Takae district in northern Okinawa and their recent protests against the construction of U.S. military helipads and deployment of Osprey helicopters.
Young-jak who is a private secretary of madam Baek, the center power of Korean conglomerate, deals with immoral private issues of her wealthy family. He reports to madam Baek that her husband, Mr. Yoon is having an affair with a Filipino nanny, Eva. Madam Baek is now despaired, then greedily …
Documentary looks back at the 1961 Cuban campaign that sent city kids to the countryside in an effort to make Cuba a literate nation.
For years Adam Sandler has been threatening to remake several Jerry Lewis pictures. The closest he's come is borrowing the title of a 1951 Martin & Lewis picture for this insipid, deeply misogynistic excuse for a comedy. Doing a gravelly-voiced, baby-talking variation on Al Pacino (complete with fright wig), Sandler …
Exactly what you might expect in a movie based on a relationship manual written by comedian and game-show host Steve Harvey. Harvey — who actually shows up onscreen to dispense his grandmotherly wisdom — tells the ladies that while “times have changed, your playbook hasn’t.” Nor, it seems, has the …
This is 134 minutes! Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann star as the now-married couple Judd Apatow first introduced us to in Knocked Up. (Katherine Heigl, who told Vanity Fair that the original “paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving …
If we can have His and Hers bath towels, why not a His and Hers movie? (Okay, mostly His.) A pair of charming super agents — sensitive Brit Tom Hardy and swaggering golden boy Chris Pine — compete for the heart of a consumer-products tester (a game Reese Witherspoon). The …
For his first narrative feature since the unforgettable Il Divo, director Paolo Sorrentino once again turns out an epic account of a passive subject. This tack worked when used to illustrate the life of a nondescript, hunchbacked dwarf who quietly ran roughshod over Italian politics for almost 50 years. The …
If only we had a thousand words for it, but here goes: Eddie Murphy cranks up loud and even funny as Jack, a motormouth Hollywood agent, but then the comical “concept” shifts him into mugging mutely because a guru (Cliff Curtis) and a mystic Bodhi tree want Jack to hear …
Credit Sean Hayes (Larry), Will Sasso (Curly), and especially Chris Diamantopoulos (Moe) for doing their homework. Their Xerography of the boys’ lowbrow antics perfectly captures the spirit and flavor of the shorts. Slap the Farrelly Bros. for bringing smooth continuity, no glaring dubbed-in dialogue, and a paucity of dummies, doubles, …
Starting on the confined space of a fixed, unbroken four minute opening take of two half-asleep children being placed in the family station wagon, Lucia and her younger brother look on from the back seat as mom and dad do their best to talk around the real reason for the …
The Webby Award Winning comedy team of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim rape a pasture filled with sacred cows in a film that can only be called vile on every count. As intentionally shocking and patently offensive as the material may be, nothing prepared me for the gruesome cinematography and …
Writer/director Céline Sciamma brings us a French meditation on the complexities of life for a gender-questioning youth. High marks go to Sciamma’s intriguing images and adroit angles. There are simply too many impressive shots to mention. Zoé Héran in the lead role has striking features that fit the part, softly …