Mexico City has 45 government operated emergency service vehicles to serve a population of approximately 9 million. That leaves a wide open market for private care, and this is the story of one such hospital wagon and the family that’s been in business for 20 years. They race to be …
With a bounty placed on his head by the Taliban, Afghan director Hassan Fazili turns his life into art for this gripping documentary.
What the opening murder/suicide of Dani’s (Florence Pugh) parents and sister brings to bear on the Swedish vacation that follows is negligible. It’s included mostly because writer-director Ari Aster (taking a backward-step after the chilling Hereditary) thought it would be cool to start in the garage and follow a tube …
What the opening murder/suicide of Dani’s (Florence Pugh) parents and sister brings to bear on the Swedish vacation that follows is negligible. It’s included mostly because writer-director Ari Aster (taking a backward-step after the chilling Hereditary) thought it would be cool to start in the garage and follow a tube …
What happens when producers do double duty as screenwriters? Midway through Midway, it hit me. First-timer Wes Tooke, guilty on both counts, makes it so the special effects are more interesting than the characters and events they were meant to update for contemporary audiences. The cast, on the other hand, …
Remember 60 Minutes, America’s first TV news magazine? Remember its tenacious terrier of a host, Mike Wallace? No? Okay, how about this: remember Bill O’Reilly, former Fox News superstar? Yes? Well, this documentary opens with a conversation between O’Reilly and Wallace in which the latter tries to scold the former …
Early on in Stanley J. Nelson’s reverential, lovingly illustrated primer on the jazz legend, its subject (or rather, an actor rasping out his words in a decent facsimile) says, “Living is an adventure and a challenge. It wasn’t about standing still and becoming safe.” True enough: anyone who knows their …
If Peter Cattaneo’s The Full Monty had balls, it would have proudly displayed them in the film’s curtain shot. This time, with their husbands and lovers deployed in Afghanistan, rather than take a strip-tease show on the road, Cattaneo’s titular guardians of the home front, here bivouacked at a British …
Playing in conjunction with the 2019 Hola Mexico Film Festival Tour.
Miss Bala is nowhere near the muy mala dose of gun porn that’s promised in the trailer. How’s this for being as timely as today’s headlines: in the Americanized remodel of Gerardo Naranjo’s gritty 2011 crime thriller, Mexican actors assume the roles of kidnappers, rapists, border-jumpers, crooked federales and/or drug …
This adventure in stop motion animation details the discovery and subsequent exploits of the eponymous living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. Chris Butler
This adventure in stop motion animation details the discovery and subsequent exploits of the eponymous living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. Chris Butler
A concert promoter beats a murder rap and runs for the San Bernardino District Attorney's office against the prosecutor of his case. The latest from the warped minds of Tim Heidecker and Eric Notarnicola.