Charm is a delicate commodity, especially when you're grinding it between the millstones of high camp and naked sincerity. In 2012, the celebration/spoof of a cappella college groups Pitch Perfect managed to preserve it, thanks mostly to the light touch of star Anna Kendrick. But the grim arithmetic of sequels …
Documentary advocating plant-based diets.
Luke Bracey and Edgar Ramirez slip into the wetsuits of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in this remake/blowup of the 1991 hit about bank robbers who surf. The sports are more varied and more extreme this time around, with commensurate increases in both cash and convictions.
They're here...again. Revisionist reboot of the '80s horror franchise about mean ghosts who have it in for a little girl.
What are the chances of a talented 38-year-old caretaker/would-be singer (the bewitchingly baptized Samantha Montgomery, aka Princess Shaw) — who is lucky if her original videos attract 64 views — being discovered by an Israeli musician (Ophir Kutiel aka Kutiman) who’s currently at work creating “visual symphonies” out of random …
Katsuyuki Motohiro and Naoyoshi Shiotani direct this cinematic followup to the animated TV show. Apparently, there are dangers in allowing an overlord hive-mind to map the "criminal tendencies" of the rest of the population.
A pair of “crow-sont” eatin’ New York cops are sent to the City of Lights to crack a counterfeit purse operation. Luis Guzman in a lead role, you say? That’s enough to make any guilty pleasure all the more pleasurable. He’s paired opposite a fine comic foil in the guise …
Can women and women be friends? If you're gonna go hard to the closeup, you're gonna want to work with a face like Elisabeth Moss's. Alex Ross Perry's (Listen Up Philip) portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown opens on a teary-smeary Moss mid-breakup, veering between …
Sitting on a shelf since 2015, this is Werner Herzog’s first narrative feature in six years. On paper, impassioned archaeologist Herzog and real-life subject Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) — a writer, world-traveler, photographer, and all-around eloquent nomad whose heart belonged to the desert — would appear to have the makings …
People vs. hills of various steepness and substance.
Comedy drama from director Ponram, starring Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh. In Tamil.