A Chinese city boy is sent out to the sticks to educate the populace as part of the Cultural Revolution. While he's out there, he decides to adopt a wolf pup. One problem: the government wants the wolf pups put down. Directed and adapted for the scren by Jean-Jacques Annaud …
In the marsh lies a house/ Containing evil immense/ The first feature's earnings/ Exceeded all sense/ So now there's one more/ About the woman in black/ As long as there's profit/ She'll always come back.
Harvey Weinstein continues to pan for Holocaust gold with this fact-fueled, remedially-chronicled — vibrant colors = present day/achromatic tones = flashback — extermination of an otherwise fascinating historical footnote. With Streisand and Rogen unavailable, Helen Mirren assumes the role of the feisty octogenarian who, along with her young lawyer (mayo-man …
aka The Tourists are Coming. The wonders of the title are the Countryside Wonders — local color, local produce, etc. — being sought out by an Italian variety show eager to pimp Tuscan authenticity. But what’s worth wondering at is the way writer-director Alice Rohrwacher illustrates the private world of …
Hey, what if all the forgiveness and love talk in Christianity actually mattered? Andrew and John Erwin's (Moms' Night Out) latest is based on the true story of a "come to Jesus" moment for a football team at a recently desegregated Alabama high school. With Sean Astin and Nic Bishop, …
A young man's live-action visit to a Christian day camp is transformed into an animated journey toward spiritual maturity, thanks to his ten-year-old guide. Carl Lauten directs.
Their love was strong. But the timing was wrong. Another chance. Another moment. Are they meant to be...or still meant to be apart? Can they run after the love that passed them by? To whom will you say, "You're still the one?"
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) has made something of a crowd pleaser, a gorgeous consideration of the artistic impulse that yields up its fruits without too much of a struggle. (A little patience may be required while the weaver spins out his threads, but they all wind up woven, …
Thrillingly Biblical, in both the Old and New Testament sense. In a radioactive, post-war world, Ann Burden (symbolism) lives a lonely life, tending the valley that is her home and also maybe the last unpoisoned place on Earth. Hope for humanity (or at least company) arrives in the form of …
Remarkable for taking a lurid and ludicrous storyline — a federal prosecutor and aspiring politician plunges (reluctantly) into the world of high-priced escorts, even as the FBI goes after the very service he frequents — stocking it with a solid cast — Patrick Wilson as a twitchy, tortured Paul Newman, …