“Every musician in the world loves Link Wray,” observes Black Keys singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach. “I don’t know why the rest of the world hasn’t figured that out.” Add to that a film that shares its title with Wray’s influential instrumental, and you’ve got me primed to settle in for a …
Victims of unsolved murders return to life to punish their killers in this South Korean thriller from Kwak Kyung-taek.
Action-thriller from India about a hard-line cop who wages war against a criminal operation dealing in deadly toxic waste.
Prepare to be blindsided by another well-intentioned true life story meant to inspire, this one about a homeless man (Djimon Hounsou) who miraculously saves the marriage of struggling couple played Renee Zellwegger and Greg Kinnear. Michael Carney makes his directorial debut.
Birdhouse's first video in 10 years.
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. The program notes describe it as, "Based on Nancy Pickard's novel of the same name. When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the …
At age 93, Scotty Bowers looks like the last surviving member of the Our Gang comedies, when in truth, this little rascal’s job was provocateur to the stars. Fresh out of the service, Scotty transformed a corner gas station into a Hollywood Blvd. whorehouse, with a trailer tucked behind the …
At age 93, Scotty Bowers looks like the last surviving member of the Our Gang comedies, when in truth, this little rascal’s job was provocateur to the stars. Fresh out of the service, Scotty transformed a corner gas station into a Hollywood Blvd. whorehouse, with a trailer tucked behind the …
Anton Chekhov’s play about a couple of writers — one nascent, one established —and a couple of actresses — one aspiring, one not retiring — gathered for a family reunion at a lake house in the country proves to be unfilmable, at least here. It could be that the manifest …
To her loving mother's delight (and her cold-hearted father's disdain) a 14 year old pursues her dream to become a singer. The secret's out: originality does not appear to be writer-director Advait Chandan's strong suit.
Director Ritesh Batra’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’s my-theme-is-memory novel serves as a grand showcase for star Jim Broadbent as a sour old soul who is ever so gently forced to reckon with his past, and a smaller showcase for Charlotte Rampling as the long-ago lover who has very little interest …