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 …
What looks at first like it might be a 92-minute commercial for a venerable luxury hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side turns out to be something quite different — something not entirely opposite, but certainly something more melancholy and elegiac than a simple celebration of refined indulgence. Documentarian Matthew Miele …
A teenager will have to face the ferocity of his neighborhood where the codes of masculinity and the law of the strongest is mandatory to survive. Directed by Fabián Hernández Alvarado.
Documentary about the legacy of Saint Teresa of Calcutta through the testimony of Spanish believers.
Another in the Fellini line of semi-autobiographical entertainments, episodic and variable in quality from episode to episode, this one set in the hometown of his youth. In his choice of recollections, there is a strict ban on the banal (it hardly seems possible that this wonderland is the same sort …
A Hal Hartley film, which description will mean something to the eighteen fans worldwide of his peculiar brand of frivolous eccentricity. It revolves around a self-professed nymphomaniac virgin ex-nun author of pornography, an amnesiac porn-film producer, a blackmailing former porn actress, an unfulfilled publisher of pornographic magazines ("My aspiration was …
The opening sequence, in which a band of Left-wing terrorists take hostages at the American consulate in Munich and arbitrarily execute one of them, is pretty gripping. Subsequent developments, in which the victim's bereaved lover — a mild-mannered cryptographer for the CIA — defies his superiors and sets out for …
Aretha Franklin recorded what turned out to be the biggest selling gospel album in history over a two-night period at the New Bethel Baptist Church in January 1972. The goal was admittedly to sell records, not tickets, but Warner Bros. still decided to send Sydney Pollack and four 16mm cameras …
An old-school screen biography (or hagiography) of the English abolitionist, William Wilberforce, who spearheaded the anti-slavery movement in Parliament from the late 18th Century to the early 19th, a long, slow struggle against the forces of entrenched economics. On the virtuous side of every issue -- in favor of free …
This story follows Maurice, a goofy streetwise cat, who has the perfect money-making scam. He finds a dumb-looking kid who plays a pipe and has his very own horde of rats, who are strangely literate. Featuring the voices of Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke.
Bugs with superpowers live beneath our feet, including beetles that shoot chemical fire and lift enormous weights, scorpions that glow in the dark, and spiders that can make themselves virtually invisible and hypnotize their prey.
A cub, a Cub Scout, a couple of poachers. Amazing indeed in its dullness, despite cuddly animal footage and authentic China locations. With Ryan Slater, Yi Ding, Stephen Lang; directed by Christopher Cain.