This year’s award for the “How Dumb Must a Character Be?” ending goes to Harper Sykes (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), a chameleonic nature photographer on assignment in the meth-infested backwoods of Virginia’s fictional Watchatoomy Valley. Hospitalized and mummified in gauze, Sykes recounts to a doubting cop a nightmare flashback that begins with …
Made-for-Showtime doc sheds light on the lives of three of the estimated thousands of immigrants who volunteer for service in the American military.
Not. Before Grace (Samara Weaving) can get on with her honeymoon, the foster child who has just married into a family that made its millions off board games must first engage in a ritualistic game night. At the stroke of midnight, the mansion is put on lockdown and each of …
Political propaganda in the guise of an action drama. With Eric Roberts and Kevin Sorbo.
Scott Z. Burns, Bourne Ultimatum co-scripter and regular Steven Soderbergh scribe (The Informant, Contagion), makes his theatrical directorial debut. Like a well-intentioned family hiding the cancer diagnosis from a dying uncle, this justly paranoid thriller brings to light just how little truth is shared with the American public. Remember this …
The point of home movies is to commemorate happy events. But for filmmaker Sasha Neulinger, the memories were unbearable: a glance here, a gesture there... Hidden within the stack of VHS tapes were pieces of a ghastly childhood. For years, three family members (two uncles and a cousin) took turns …
Clint Eastwood worked five years putting the film together, and there’s not another actor out there who’d make a better lead than Paul Walter Hauser. Their similarity is uncanny, but it’s much more than that: Jewell is not a celebrity along the lines of, say, Ray Charles or Mr. Rogers. …
Comedians talk over a movie.
Prefabricated heckling for people who are humor-challenged.