A crush of displaced people, determined to weather Cincinnati’s coldest night of the year indoors, put the downtown library in a lockdown situation. Another thriller entirely situated among the stacks? Alas, Quiet Please, Murder this is not. First off, just enough of the film takes place outside the repository so …
A documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino's career.
Rather than a wedding, the departure point for this remake of Liliek Sudjio’s same-named 1981 Indonesian cult horror item is a reunion of sorts at an orphanage. Mr. Bandi (Yayu A.W. Unru), will any day now breathe his last, and a trio of acquiescent repatriates are coming to pay their …
Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya star as the black Bonnie & Clyde.
A Filipino Schindler’s List?! Read on. The Nazis had Jews they wanted to dispose of, and the Filipinos were willing to take them in. Under the guise of boosting the economy, Manuel L. Quezon (Raymond Bagatsing), second President of the Philippines, posted classified ads offering Jews professional jobs in the …
What's up, celebrity doc? This one about Rolling Stones founding member, Bill Wyman.
Janice Engel’s loving portrait of perhaps the most famous liberal journalist in Texas history (there must be a few others, right?) feels a bit like a pitch for a biopic. That is to say, it’s more portrait than story. It spends an awful lot of time on what feels like …
The real war right inside your own multiplex door continues. Instead of the interminable set-up, a simple title card, reminiscent of a ‘30s serial, would have set the scene nicely: “Following the kidnapping of his niece by a gang of drug-dealing Mexican rapists (some of whom we assume are good …
Why is there an offscreen narrator reading aloud the comic panel dialogue boxes that open the show? Perhaps because, after two decades spent lending valuable support to brash teen comedies, Comic-Con staple Jay Baruchel (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, She's Out of My League) —here acting for …
Based on the Japanese light novel series Rascal Does Not Dream written by Hajime Kamoshida and illustrated by Keeji Mizoguchi.