Screenwriter Max Landis transfigures the backstory of Mary Shelley’s almighty monster-maker into a set-bound action/adventure/horror/buddy comedy told from the POV of the cutest lil’ hunchback this side of Disney’s bell-ringer. Daniel Radcliffe plays the abscess-backed circus clown (possessed with a surgeon’s steady hand) plucked from under the big top by …
Somewhere inside this 138 minute genre picture — ambitiously executed in one unbroken take — lurks 70 minutes' worth of substantive storytelling. But scrape away the concept and you'll find another workaday caper flick, one that takes forever getting to its point. (Almost half the film is consumed with setting …
John Florence surf film, shot entirely in 4K.
A brother and sister use a week’s vacation with their estranged grandparents as an excuse to film a documentary reminiscence for their mom. M. Night Shyamalan (After Earth) has spent much of his career trying to duplicate the baffling success of The Sixth Sense. When all is lost, found footage! …
Halfway through her debut presentation, an aspiring young drag performer (Héctor Medina) is suckerpunched by a member of the audience, who turns out to be the recently sprung father (Jorge Perugorría) he never knew. From here, director Paddy Breathnach and screenwriter Mark O’Halloran call into play Hollywood’s tested and proven …
Dan Villegas directs this romantic meta-comedy about a writer of romantic comedies who isn't sure that love is real. In Filipino and English.
James Marsh’s Man on Wire — the superb Academy Award-winning documentary account of the death-defying stroll that high-wire artist Philippe Petit took between the Twin Towers back in 1974 — is given a fantasy thrill-ride makeover by Hollywood motion capture champion Robert Zemeckis (Flight). Saddled with a French accent, Michigan …
What do bros (in this case, Robert Redford) do once they get old? In A Walk in the Woods, they get sick of attending funerals, decide to out-hike Death on the Appalachian Trail, and tell the old lady (Emma Thompson) where she can stick her objections to stupidly risking one's …
How the heck did someone besides Disney figure out how to make a movie about Walt Disney? Directed by Khoa Le.
Skiing as existential experience. Brought to you by Warren Miller.
Alex Kendrick (Courageous) returns with another lesson in how the practice of Christianity — in this case, prayer — can improve your life.
If you can keep in mind that the whole thing is an Australian tweak of the magic carpet story from The Arabian Nights (boy travels the world and has many adventures before returning home to his father), you can probably enjoy this improbable, episodic, and earnestly entertaining Russell Crowe story …
The discovery by a scraggly Norwegian geologist (Kristoffer Joner) of a pending tsunami just happens to coincide with the day he’s planning to uproot his family and move to accept a new position in another town. While there are no cruise ships to upend or towering infernos to extinguish — …
A celebration of skateboarding and skate culture from the good people at Mountain Dew Green Label films.
Wanting to escape the memories of their dead son, a couple moves from the big city to a remote New England farmhouse. Using the kid’s ghost-in-tow as his lead-in to horror, writer-director Ted Geoghegan directly proceeds to drop as unambitious a haunted house movie as any you’ll find. One jolt: …