Had anyone other than David Gordon Green been attached as director, this story of a Boston Marathon bombing victim would most likely have gone unreviewed in these pages. Jake Gyllenhaal stars, in what may be his most physically and emotionally challenging role to date, as Jeff Bauman, an unremarkable man …
It may be possible — perhaps by squinting and turning your head just so and maybe crossing your eyes a touch — to see why director George Clooney juxtaposes, at a climactic moment, the sick comedic violence of a man finding himself unable to extract his golf club from the …
Theatre Art Studio's adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's comedy.
Customers at the local butcher shop debate the mysterious circumstances under which Frida’s (Laia Artigas) parents died, never once stopping to consider the feelings of the little girl standing waist-high in their presence. After all, Frida’s a kid. She won’t understand, right? Nor can anyone comprehend how a child that’s …
Jews and Palestinians have been fighting off and on for 100 years. Learn more in this documentary co-directed by Josef Avesar and Charles Fredricks.
Not a Carrie Underwood vehicle, but rather, a taut western drama set in Australia’s remote Northern Territory frontier during the 1920’s. An easygoing Aboriginal man, Sam’s (Hamilton Morris) boss (Sam Neill) asks that he and his wife help a new neighbor work the land. Things quickly sour, leaving the good …
From afar, the peaceful community appears to be aglow from luminaria, the traditional paper bag lanterns used to light the Christ child’s path on Christmas Eve. But this small town’s latest resident (Christopher Abbott) is anything but godly. The opening scene — a stranger walks into a bar after hours, …
Unless the entire cast suddenly found it hard to make their mortgage payments, file this one under “unnecessary sequels.” The passage of 23 years finds Begbie (Robert Carlyle) on the lam, Spud (Ewen Bremner) a suicidal junkie, and Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) managing a questionable extortion ring — when he’s …
Better to sneak into another auditorium than pull up a seat at the loser table opposite these six dusty nerds. Director Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound, Rocket Science) skips the hors d'oeuvre — nothing can whet the appetite for what’s to follow — and for the main course, serves up the comedic …
Laird Hamilton was the golden child of the surf set, a natural-born rider possessed of an innate flexibility and an unheard-of sense of balance. The lad’s natural good looks helped, too, at least to gain him a modeling career and at least one unforgettable big screen performance. (As one talking …
Hun Jang's historical drama about a Korean taxi driver who helps a foreign reporter cover an uprising. In Korean with English subtitles.