It would be hard to top Fred Schepisi's Roxanne as the #1 film adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s nasally enhanced romance, but the latest from Joe Wright (Atonement, The Soloist) comes close. Time and again Peter Dinklage has proven to be more than just another Billy Barty, a character actor accepting …
Un sacerdote, el padre Berriatúa, cree haber descifrado el mensaje secreto del Apocalipsis según San Juan: el anticristo nacerá el 25 de diciembre de 1995 en Madrid. Para impedirlo, el cura pide ayuda a José María, un fanático del heavy-metal, e intentan averiguar dónde tendrá lugar el acontecimiento. Con la …
A freshly paroled Billy Walker (a durable Ronnie Gene Blevins, equal parts Tom Sizemore and Peter Sarsgaard) returns to his mother’s (Lara Flynn Boyle) home in El Paso to find her weeks away from death. Dr. Perkins (Sam Daley) informs Billy that the law prohibits him from discussing his mother’s …
We come galloping out of the gate, practically tripping over an overabundance of cracker-barrel narration (spoken by Billy Crudup) and characters’ names spelled out in the corners of the frame. In the numerous physical altercations Ben Gibbon (Diego Boneta) has been in since the age of five, the win to …
A hand enters the frame to select a tape from the stacks. Strategically shelved label-out next to “Donny’s Party” — the cassette that has transcribed on it in rapidly deteriorating magnetic particles the 1998 reception at hand — is a VHS tape with “Barney Porn” scrawled across its spine. This …
Leo! JLaw! La Meryl! Great Cate! Sweet Tea Timothée! Riri! Madea! A former Will Ferrell gag writer handling the rudder! Even the biggest of screens can barely withstand the star power. With Spidey continuing to draw record numbers, lets see how many screens your local multiplex will free up for …
In the shadows of their bedroom, a Japanese power couple — actor-director Yûsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and screenwriter Oto Kafuku (Reika Kirishima) — take advantage of their post-coital glow to hatch an idea for a T.V. pilot. She is always with him; while driving, he runs lines off a tape …
If David Lynch couldn’t make heads or tails of Frank Herbert’s famously unfilmable novel, what was it about Denis Villeneuve that pegged him as the visionary needed to tame the 412-page beast? Sure, he did a splendid job of piloting the equally indomitable sequel to Blade Runner, but this time …
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most …
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most …
An underground subway system was all architect Gustave Eiffel (Romain Duris) proposed for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris. Stepping into the light, he designed a metal tower 300 meters high, to be built where everyone can see it. What could have been a towering bore offers up a CG …
The latest from Disney posits a magical house, in a magical Colombian town, populated by magical people save one. Mirabel (voiced by Stephanie Beatriz) is a misfit, who, unlike Marilyn Munster, is destined to rely on human aptitude rather than hoodoo to save her family and humanity as we know …
When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father's bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it's your own father? Directed by François Ozon, starring Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, …
Remember when celebrity biopics were relegated to the realm of TV movies? Now they’ve become a box office staple. On any given week, it’s virtually impossible to set foot in a multiplex without having at least one celebrity impersonator from which to choose. Evangelical bamboozler Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) never …