Celebrated for his spooky, pitch-black Rorschach-test monstrosities sporting blown-ink fingers, Richard Hambleton was a formally trained artist — as opposed to a simple graffiti-spreader — who used the streets as his canvas. A founding father of the street art movement of the ‘80s, Hambleton eventually vanished from sight, only to …
Gather ‘round, allegory fans, and behold this fish-out-of-water tale of man’s inhumanity to what he deems inhuman from director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro. The action is recalled as a sort of adult fairy tale, and concerns a woman (Sally Hawkins, mesmerizing) without a voice and the mysterious creature who …
A terrorist threatens to kill hostages one at a time until his ransom demands are met. Herman Yau directs Andy Lau in another cops and paycho action thriller.
Don’t let the friendly greeting and buckets of food they carry fool you: Carmen and her brother Rafito don’t work for Meals on Wheels. Rather, they’re in the business of smuggling undocumented immigrants from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic. Work ends, and no sooner does Rafito drop Carmen off …
A former basketball player/wrongfully accused ex-con finds redemption in a slam-dunk basketball tournament. Starring Chris Staples and featuring Jose Canseco as Himself.
Working undercover to crack a dope ring, a Vegas cop (Jamie Foxx) unknowingly endangers the life of his 16-year-old son (Octavius J. Johnson) in this subtitle-free Americanization of the 2011 French thriller Sleepless Night. It starts menacingly enough, with ace scumbag-magnet Scoot McNairy dangling a double-dealing relative over home plate …
Not a sequel to the two live-action/animated features that came before, but a fully animated... wait. There's a Smurfs 3?! Damn you, Jim Comey!
Not a sequel to the two live-action/animated features that came before, but a fully animated... wait. There's a Smurfs 3?! Damn you, Jim Comey!
Jonathan Levine’s road comedy ends the 15-year drought since movie audiences last had the pleasure of making Goldie Hawn’s on-screen acquaintance. Amy Schumer plays a recent dumpee with two non-refundable tickets to a romantic Ecuadorian paradise. So she decides to invite her judgmental, everythingophobic mother (Hawn) to join her on …
There are, to date, 11 crime novels from Norwegian author Jo Nesbø featuring detective Harry Hole, novels which have sold many millions of copies worldwide. So that takes a little bit of the mystery out of how this overstuffed, undercooked thriller landed talented director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), …
Keith (McCaul Lombard) is a con serving out the last year of his drug-related sentence under house arrest. Finally relieved of his ankle monitor (and under the steadying gaze of cinematographer Shabier Kirchner’s smooth-as-ice camerawork) he takes a liberating jog through the streets of Baltimore, savoring his freedom for a …
Twenty years separate Terrence Malick's third and fourth film and up until then, the man could do no wrong. The tortoise now moves at a hare's pace. Since 2011, Malick has doubled his career output. Will this, his eighth film break the curse or are we to expect more of …