Generation Y gets its web-slinger, and as cash-grab reboots go, it’s not bad. This time, high-school dweeb Peter Parker isn’t such a nice guy at the outset: he’s a New Yorker, after all, and on top of that, he’s an orphan with a dad-shaped chip on his shoulder. And he’s …
Every superhero movie faces a choice: the man or the mask? Sure, there’s interplay, but ultimately, one feeds the other, storywise. Judging by the either goofy or nonsensical nature of the (admittedly balletic) fight scenes in he Amazing Spider-Man 2, you might be tempted to say that this sequel to …
In early 2000s, happy twins Mallikarjuna and Padmavati's lives change on 25th birthday due to unexpected events. Written & Directed By Dushyanth Katikaneni.
Slow-going psychological thriller about an unpublished novelist who, in search of material, insinuates himself into the life of a paroled mass murderer. Lou Diamond Phillips wrote the screenplay with himself in mind as the star, and there is a facileness, a routineness about the writing. But not about the performance …
The latest overinflated stretch of chase scenes stitched together to fabricate a feature from Michael Bay runs almost an hour longer than the 80 minute Danish thriller of the same name upon which it was based. Unable to get satisfaction from the VA, war hero Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) …
True story of a U.S. military suicide mission embarked upon by a group of young elite commandos, led by Captain Drummond. The soldiers are tasked with collecting highly classified information that can change the fate of the war, a mission that requires sneaking through miles of enemy, Vietcong infested tunnels. …
Catch a mystery movie without knowing the title in advance.
AMC will screen a mystery film, sharing the movie's MPA rating ahead of time, but the feature presentation will remain a mystery. The film is promised to be something that may otherwise be overlooked by mainstream audiences.
Punishingly dull biopic on history's most fabled aviatrix, Amelia Earhart (portrayed by Hilary Swank, with traces of Katharine Hepburn rather than of Kansas wheatfields in her speech), her final flight endlessly interrupted by how-she-got-there flashbacks. The only suspense is in whether the film is going to offer an ending or …
Cutesy art-house item looks at the world (at Paris, more precisely) through the primrose-colored glasses of Jean-Pierre Jeunet: a delayed-meeting romance à la And Now My Love, Sleepless in Seattle, et al., and a fashionable juggling act of fate, chance, coincidence, etc. The dementedly winsome heroine (Audrey Tatou), prone to …
Cutesy art-house item looks at the world (at Paris, more precisely) through the primrose-colored glasses of Jean-Pierre Jeunet: a delayed-meeting romance à la And Now My Love, Sleepless in Seattle, et al., and a fashionable juggling act of fate, chance, coincidence, etc. The dementedly winsome heroine (Audrey Tatou), prone to …
Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Jamel Debbouze.
Costa-Gavras's valuable addition to the Holocaust canon. As an adaptation of The Deputy -- Rolf Hochhuth's pedagogical stage play of forty years earlier, and a hotly controversial one at the time in pointing an accusatory finger at the Catholic Church, among others, for complicity or at least acquiescence in the …