Following cheerfully uncomfortable work in Welcome to Me and Diary of a Teenage Girl, Kristen Wiig keeps going there, this time taking on the role of a woman trying to help an interracial gay couple to produce a baby. Co-starring and written and directed by Sebastien Silva (Crystal Fairy).
Chiwetel Ejiofor faces death, just like you will some day.
Charlotte Bronte's tale of enduring love (and shifting mores and awful secrets and loveless childhoods and...)
Not to be confused with the rather less romantic comedy, The Bro Strategem.
Lesson #1: there’s no such thing as a bad story, just bad storytellers. How else does one explain the hypnotic sensation that awaits in this surrealist tale of an ordinary tail-sanding bull handler? Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) works behind the scenes on the rodeo circuit. He’s a traveling man, at heart …
David Yarovesky directed and cowrote this story of black vomit and head-messing.
For those unfamiliar with the appealingly dark acts of perversity François Ozon (Swimming Pool) has previously taken delight in putting audiences through, this is probably as subdued (though not entirely safe) a point of entry as any. Ozon had me with the virtuosity of his opening nine-minute encapsulation of a …
A smartly built, chemically-enhanced Christmas story about growing up that you can't watch with the grown-ups — at least, not the ones who will get bothered by dick pics. The Night Before, which follows three friends (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and Anthony Mackie) as they wind down a tradition of …
Documentary about the terrifying condition of sleep paralysis, once known as The Old Hag.
Fresh in from Texas, Superdad Owen Wilson and the family arrive “somewhere in Asia” just in time to celebrate Kill All Americans Day. Fine sleight of hand work on the pre-credit sequence promptly sails headlong into a Xenophobic, effects-laden thrill ride, minus the superhero costumes. Pierce Brosnan, in a brief …
In 2010, Army Chaplain Justin David Roberts traveled to Afghanistan with the No Slack division of the 101st Airborne (motto: "No breather from work, no relief from combat, no request for respite") and brought his video camera. Here, he uses his footage to illustrate the story of several military operations …
Three strangers struggle to revitalize an abandoned agritourism in this Italian comedy.
Documentary about Asian Americans and the food they make.