Disney Nature (just like regular nature, only with the anthropomorphic magic of Disney!) brings you the story of Maya, a clever and resourceful bonde-bobbed monkey who must help her family recover their jungle home from a band of powerful neighboring monkeys. The press materials actually say she uses her street …
Freed from his mountain prison after 500 years (angering the gods carries a pretty heavy sentence), the Monkey King must help to save a village from a wicked fellow who wants to harvest 100 innocent children's souls and so gain eternal life. Oh, and there are monsters. Directed and co-written …
The highest-grossing Chinese film of all time shows the world that the Asian market has at last mastered the ancient Hollywood science of using special effects as an opiate to replace storytelling. Nothing much happens in this live-action/animated action fantasy about a mutant baby born to a human father and …
The titular polycephalic freak of nature refers to both an unprincipled pharmaceutical company and Sonia (Jana Raluy), the wife caring for a cancerous husband who forces the fatcats at gunpoint to reconsider supplying her man with an experimental drug not covered by their insurance. Think Death Wish meets John Q. …
This cop is wild. But he still sings! Darshan is back, and director A.P. Arjun has him!
Tober Heymann's documentary covers the life and lucky times of Ohad Naharin, from his youth as an entertainer in the Israeli army, to the series of breaks that helped him make it as a dancer in New York, to his canny rise as a choreographer for his own company, to …
The cutline for Bill Condon's latest reads, "The Man Behind the Myth." It might have been better put as, "The Man Behind the Mind." It's true that the film is driven by an ancient Sherlock Holmes' effort to remember the true story of the case that drove him into retirement …
An innocent splash with male schoolmates capsizes the lives of five orphaned sisters. Accused of disgracing their family, the girls are in turn exposed to untold humiliation at the hands of an uncle determined to make them prisoners in a home with but two escape routes: marriage or death. Given …
Nowadays, a sports film such as this has but two paths to follow: faith-based proselytizing (Facing the Giants, Woodlawn) or a regulation biopic like all the rest. First time director (and author of Hoosiers and Rudy) Angelo Pizzo dutifully delivers the latter in his latest schoolboy tome, a tribute to …
Jose Javier Reyes directs this tale of multigenerational love. In Filipino.
It’s October, and one week into the never-ending taping of a fatuous, disaster-plagued New Year’s Eve song-and-dance extravaganza — the type even Dick Clark would have frowned upon — an extra seated at table 21 gets flattened by a runaway crane shot. One man’s tragedy is another man’s big break. …
While on their first date, Georgio (Vincent Cassel), clearly a well-heeled heel, pauses awkwardly for a moment before answering Tony’s (Emmanuelle Bercot) inquiry as to his status as a jerk. Writer-director Maïwenn could have stopped just short of tattooing the words “Caution: Asshole Enclosed” across Georgio’s forehead and doormat Tony …