Finally, a film that is not afraid of the nut-shot montage and the "Jesus is watching you masturbate" joke. The plot — guy's sperm go bad on him, so he goes on a quest to regain a healthy sample he once donated to a sperm bank — is a wall …
Bachelorette takes the great emblem of feminine matrimonial anxiety — the wedding dress — and goes to town on it. First, it’s torn. Then it gets bled on. Eventually, it’s also stained with both semen and vomit (the bodily fluid trifecta!), but not before it gets stuffed into a garbage …
Once you get past the initial thought of, “Wow, Courtney Love has really let herself go,” you realize that what you’re watching is a documentary about the former front man for Throbbing Gristle and his decision to express his love for his lady fair by trying to look more like …
Might as well call it Bullship. Aliens arrive during 14-nation fleet exercises off Hawaii. Despite the aliens' superior technology, the Navy booze-brat Taylor Kitsch mans up to lead our forces, while his wow girlfriend Brooklyn Decker leads our land attack with a leg-less Army veteran and a science nerd. WWII …
Outstanding location work and a knockout performance by young newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis are almost enough to recommend this Sundance favorite. A six-year-old scrapper lives with her father (Dwight Henry) in a post-Katrina New Orleans community called the Bathtub. With dad’s health failing, the girl is forced to set out in …
Robert De Niro unloads his gnarly, scowling, old-crank routine again as a self-deluded “genius,” sort of Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver as a nutty dirtball. His son (moon-eyed Paul Dano) dislikes him but helps him at a homeless shelter. Marginal in Paul Weitz’s moody, drifting film are Julianne Moore and …
Boogeyman drivel from director Martin Guigui about a mortician (Dennis Quaid) who likes to stock his caskets with his kills. The script aims for juvenile banality and falls short of even that mark, and the acting is a roundup of static delivery and clichéd expressions. But the greatest problem is …
Jack Black is the life-based but rather cartoonish Bernie, a sweet, dapper, fussy (read: gay) undertaker in Carthage, Texas. He is an angel disguised as an oddball, loved by all, even (for a time) the mean widow Marjorie (Shirley MacLaine). Director Richard Linklater provides a cozy jacket of style, is …
Or, Grand Hotel meets Downton Abbey in the old Merchant & Ivory curry kitchen. An aging bunch of swell Brits (though Penelope Wilton is a sour pickle) gather at a pretty, decaying hotel in Udaipur, India, for sunset lessons in living. It is very tidy and quaintly picturesque but humanly …
Bettie Page — born into poverty, unwanted by her mother, and molested by her father — came within one-quarter point of being her high-school Valedictorian, an honor that would have carried with it a four-year college scholarship. Instead, she wound up in a brief, bad marriage — her first of …
Familial trials and tribulations. Noteworthy moment from the trailer: wife gets fed up with husband's crumbs in bed, begins to vacuum them up, accidentally vacuums husband's HELLO.