When Jake Met Lainey, only instead of a simulated orgasm in a restaurant, we get a tutorial in feminine masturbation conducted via glass jar. Writer-director Leslye Headland's (Bachelorette) explicit, rather clinical pathology of modern romance begins with a mutual college-days loss of virginity between leads Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie, …
Adam Pally and Sarah Burns play a couple of grown-up nerds who decide they’d like to get busy, and adopt bold new personas to help make that happen. (A leather jacket for him, garish makeup for her, plenty of booze for both.) The results are awkward and cringeworthy and bizarrely …
Director Amy Rice follows YouTube star Tyler Oakley on his Slumber Party tour, with a secondary focus on his personal life as a young gay man.
Jean-François Pouliot and François Brisson direct this animated tale of a monster snowball fight that unfolds over the entirety of winter break. A girl governs those defending the fort. A boy leads the army assaulting the gates. Symbolism!
With the (temporary?) shuttering of Studio Ghibli, the Animation Muse had to go somewhere, and since Pixar seems content to dig up Woody & Co. for Toy Story 4, why not stop by the Cartoon Saloon? Director Tomm Moore follows The Secret of Kells with a visually sumptuous take on …
Right up until the end, director and co-writer László Nemes’ tale of Auschwitz’s prisoner-janitors is a riveting, fascinating account of one man’s struggle, in the face of terrible suffering, to salvage human dignity through a single act of religious piety. (Not that it’s ever stated so prosaically, or stated at …
Rocky III's rebuilding-the-champ drama meets Cinderella Man's Daddy struggles, with a dash of The Fighter's neighborhood grit and some Eminem on the soundtrack for the beefcake training montage. A cut Jake Gyllenhaal (so, so good in last year's Nightcrawler) does a lot of quality mush-mouthed mumbling as a punched-up boxer …
In his fourth outing, Daniel Craig's iteration of superspy James Bond takes his undersized suits, hangdog expression, and psychological damage on an epic, eye-popping, worldwide hunt for...closure? (The personal and political are pretty much identical here, and a spectre is, of course, a ghost — the sort of things that …
Surfing magazine presents a surf film with Filipe Toledo at its spinning center.
Ever been on a 90-minute sugar high? Ever wondered what you would do if you managed to steal a magic book that allowed you to rewrite reality? Ever considered the metaphysical implications of writing "The End" on a page in said book? Ever wondered what lovable cartoon sea sponge Spongebob …
Takes its name from a team of investigative journalists at The Boston Globe, and provides a touching ode to the old-fashioned notion that some things simply need reporting; never mind the effort, the expense, or the effect on circulation. Here, the thing in question is the awful failure of the …
The five most terrifying words in the English language: From the director of Bridesmaids. Paul Feig’s latest matches Goodfellas “fuck” for “fuck” — the majority are slung, regrettably, by a slumming Rose Byrne — but judging the man solely on his ability to tell a story, you’d swear the dirtiest …
A rich man sets out to improve things for a village by buying it.