The nicest guy in Hollywood, Ron Howard, shares a simple, unfettered gander into the life of Luciano Pavarotti. A celebrity biopic by any other name. Howard attempts to put a redemptive spin on the family’s ultimate acceptance of their philandering tenor. After all, where there’s a will, there’s an inheritance. …
Ron Howard pays documentary tribute to Luciano Pavarotti.
Writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz team up to bring you what is quite possibly the feel-good movie of the year, for good and ill. The good part has a lot to do with the deep sweetness and natural ease between leads Shia LaBouef and Zack Gottsagen, two unlucky souls …
Consider this the biggest ornithological misappropriation since Little Richard accused Walt Disney of using, “his Donald Duck singing my ‘Tutti Frutti’… yet I never received a quarter.” It’s March of the Penguins with Ed Helms’ anthropomorphic asides substituting for Morgan Freeman’s “voice of God” narration. I’m all for Disney trying …
Gee, what can this DisneyNature documentary be about?
Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and sharing Peppa Pig stories. Dapeng Zhang directs this animated feature from China.
It’s rare that I bail in mid-movie — Instant Family was my last walk out. This year, Marks met his Peterloo. The exquisite natural lighting and period decor (think Barry Lyndon only boring) weren’t enough. You’ll need Cliff’s Notes, surveyor's instruments, and a pound of crystal meth to get through …
All the elements are there for a genuinely horrifying (as opposed to simply startling) movie: heck, two or three horrifying movies. You’ve got your woman traumatized by her youth spent caring for a hideously crippled sister who hated her. You’ve got your little girl struggling to understand why the cat …