What would you do when, thirty years after the fact, the cancer-stricken mistress (Catherine Deneuve) who drove your father to suicide reappears, begging for forgiveness? In the case of Claire (Catherine Frot) — the titular childbirth assistant skilled in the art of munificent conduct — it’s time to clean out …
MindGamers: One Thousand Minds Connected Live promises to re-imagine the modern moviegoing experience. They're calling it "the very first 'action film for the mind.'" Can you believe it? There hasn't been one of those since Spielberg and Lucas first came to town.
Never judge a film by its trailer, except maybe consider making an exception in this case. If the thought of sexual stimulation involving oral contact with the anus in graphic close up goes down rougher than a popcorn husk lodged in the back of your throat, you might want to …
What’s the best way to cure Cameron’s (Chloë Grace Moretz, in full non-confrontational mode) attraction to members of the same sex? Send her to “God’s Promise,” a conversion therapy center, and stick her in a bunk with a lesbian roommate. Conveniently set in 1993, this dumb-as-a-post expose of self-loathing homophobe/Vice …
As with last year’s The Void, Mohawk is wonderfully long on setting, mood, and practical effects, and woefully short on storytelling and drama. It concerns a Mohawk woman named Oak (Kanietiio Horn), her two lovers — one Mohawk, one English — and their efforts to rally her people to fight …
Word-pusher Aaron Sorkin makes his debut as a director, and whaddya know, he directs a lot like he writes: fast and smooth, bordering on slick. But just bordering, because love demands at least a soupçon of sincerity, and he’s found someone to love in Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain). She’s a …
Animator Chris Wedge’s (Ice Age, Robots) first feature with a human cast successfully mixes live action and animation to produce a family film that isn’t a monstrous trek. High school senior Tripp (Lucas Till), eager to shake the dust of his crummy little town off his feet, spends his free …
After what seems like a good 10 minutes’ worth of blissfully (boastingly?) unmotivated aerial camera movements, writer-director Jennifer Peedom sets her documentary to doing what it does very well: detailing the history of (and fascination with) mountaineering. A mere three centuries ago, people believed that only lords and lunatics dwelled …
With all flights cancelled, a neurosurgeon who’s desperately needed in the ER (Idris Elba) and a journalist en route to her own wedding (Kate Winslet) split the cost of a charter plane, hoping to slip past a pending snowstorm. No sooner do they take off than pilot Beau Bridges earns …
An ancient Egyptian princess escapes her tomb and sets about finding a human host for the Egyptian god of death, because a deal’s a deal. To paraphrase Dr. Hannibal Lecter, one of the monsters in the vastly superior horror hybrid (there, horror-murder mystery; here, horror-action adventure) The Silence of the …
An ancient Egyptian princess escapes her tomb and sets about finding a human host for the Egyptian god of death, because a deal’s a deal. To paraphrase Dr. Hannibal Lecter, one of the monsters in the vastly superior horror hybrid (there, horror-murder mystery; here, horror-action adventure) The Silence of the …
Follow Ulahannan, a middle aged government servant, through his emotional journey of misconceptions and love in this romantic comedy from India.