The thrilling account of how a resourceful tribe of homo sapiens came to dine on buffalo that opens the picture works best when viewed in screen-lengthening, depth-defying IMAX 3D. Once the dust settles, there’s a good (so-so?) thirty minutes of trudging hitherto well-trod tundra before little lost cave boy Keda’s …
The thrilling account of how a resourceful tribe of homo sapiens came to dine on buffalo that opens the picture works best when viewed in screen-lengthening, depth-defying IMAX 3D. Once the dust settles, there’s a good (so-so?) thirty minutes of trudging hitherto well-trod tundra before little lost cave boy Keda’s …
The thrilling account of how a resourceful tribe of homo sapiens came to dine on buffalo that opens the picture works best when viewed in screen-lengthening, depth-defying IMAX 3D. Once the dust settles, there’s a good (so-so?) thirty minutes of trudging hitherto well-trod tundra before little lost cave boy Keda’s …
Another occasion to be shocked, shocked, at the behavior of America's youth, specifically drug-dealing middle-class SoCal white kids who have embraced a black gangsta ethic ("Chill out, dog"). A true-crime wallow, with the names changed to protect the exploiters; long-drawn-out; overacted like mad. Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, Ben …
Prologue: "Reality is too complex, so you make it fiction to make it comprehensible." What this fiction is about, according to its tentative original title, is "Tarzan vs. IBM." Godard takes his hero from the public domain, the pulp domain — Lemmy Caution, a sort of Gallic Mike Hammer — …
Big smile, bigger heart, and admired by all, Marc-André Leclerc is the kind of boychik one would be proud to call their own. Alright, so he experimented a little with drugs. Who hasn’t? When it comes to scaling faces on Alpine mountains, he is quite literally the master of all …
A single Chinese-American toy designer in Hong Kong on business (Jamie Chung) and a spoken-for expat investment banker (Bryan Greenberg) meet cute and take us on a romantic 20-minute walking (and talking) tour of Hong Kong. His reluctance to cop to having a GF puts an end to the night, …
When Oliver Cook (Charles Agron) visits Spring Manor, a mysterious caretaker named Jack (Lance Henriksen) makes an impossible request, but Oliver refuses. Jack disappears, leaving behind a miraculous drug that has yet to be discovered. Oliver manufactures the pills with the help of a new business partner (Tobin Bell), becoming …
The traditional mad scientist dressed up in new clothes, or rather, divested of his clothes and floating naked in an isolation tank. That's just for starters. It's quite nice the way the metaphysical odyssey of this so-called "Faust freak" keeps expanding into new territory, moving through a Dr. Leary psychedelic …
Live action plus computer animation, with Jason Lee, directed by Tim Hill.
It’s possible that the eight- to ten-year-old set has not been sufficiently exposed to Lady Gaga. This should fix that. It’s also possible that comedian David Cross was not yet bereft of human dignity. This should fix that, too. And in case you’d forgotten how much you loved Tom Hanks …
Recent pop culture, sped up and watered down for juvenile consumption. Again. Who wants to hear Alvin bust out "Uptown Funk"? The plot involves a desperate journey to Miami to stop a wedding proposal. Hijinks ensue. Directed by Walt Becker.
Well, once in a while, maybe. Steven Spielberg's remake and update of Guy Named Joe, a WWII fantasy about the ghost of a recently deceased flyer who (unbeknown to anyone alive) tutors a neophyte flyer and even plays matchmaker between that neophyte and his own former sweetheart, loses some of …