A husband journeys with his wife to her hometown, there to perform a ceremony to ward off evil spirits. Naturally, she goes missing, and hubby must try to uncover the truth. Written and directed by Anup Bhandari. Subtitled.
Reality is the name of a little girl in a movie made by a guy who is getting funded by a guy who agrees to fund another guy's movie about murderous televisions, provided that guy can come up with an Oscar-worthy groan for the TVs' victims. That guy's wife is …
Climbers gonna climb.
Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) writes, co-produces, and directs a fun cast (Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis) in a thriller that combines psychology (regression therapy) and religion (ritual Satanic abuse). Hoo!
A genre mashup of four of contemporary cinema’s least desirable storylines — the Holocaust, old folks, and dementia. This should represent everything we’ve spent the past three decades at the movies trying to forget. But all is forgiven the moment the director’s credit hits the screen. Atom Egoyan is one …
Rich schlub who's looking for a change (Kevin Corrigan, low-key) meets cash-needy fitness guru who's looking to step up (Guy Pearce, high strung). At their point of intersection stands (runs?) a beautiful, clever, relentless, sincere trainer (Cobie Smulders, mercurial). Writer-director Andrew Bujalski has capitalized on the lo-fi triumph of oddball …
Family film presented by the German Currents Film Festival.
Early on in director and co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu’s small-scale epic, frontiersman Hugh Glass (played with almost frightening commitment by Leonardo DiCaprio) learns the hard way that if you get too near a mother bear’s cubs, she will have at you. And even if — through some astonishing combination of …
A family crisis reunites an aged rocker/grocery clerk (the rhapsodical Meryl Streep) with the husband (Kevin Kline) and children she had years ago abandoned in favor of a life on the road. Jonathan Demme, no stranger to rockumentaries (Stop Making Sense), weddings (Rachel Getting Married), and/or American dreamers (Melvin and …
This dour and avoidable semi-dramatic rethink of The Guilt Trip finds Helen Hunt – cosmetically stretched tighter than a bongo drum, thus the one expression – half-convincingly donning three creative hats (writer/director/actor). Hunt the actress hikes up the wiseguy earnestness as the erudite, singularly unlikeable mother of an equally brainy …
Come for the rock and roll...stay for the ninjas. The Rifftrax boys go to town once again.
Wow. Was the Easter Bunny on contract with Troma?
This may be the real reason they made Sharknado 2.
Boys will be horrible, spoiled bro-boys. Who's up for a little blunt-force social commentary about the haves and have-nots, set in the rarefied clime of Oxford University? (Handsome youths, English accents, custom suits, etc.) The titular club prides itself on the debauchery and destruction that accompany its annual dinner, but …