Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! For the price of one thin ticket, witness an intimate documentary account of the tragic rise and fall of Violet and Daisy Hilton, the world’s most celebrated conjoined twins. Long before reality television beamed anomalies and curiosities of medicine into living rooms on a …
A child's animated primer on the chicanery, skullduggery, and social gamesmanship so dear to the heart of the grownup world, and a gentle affirmation of genuine family life as the antithesis of and antidote for same. Ben Kingsley is simply great as Archibald Snatcher, a noisome, ill-bred schemer who dreams …
A transgendered virgin-with-girls (Michelle Hendley) falls for a girl virgin (Alexandra Turshen) engaged to a homophobic marine (Michael Galante). A good portion of writer-director Eric Schaeffer’s time is spent hammering out well-worn dialogue exchanges aimed at shedding light upon transsexuality to cave-dwelling Red Staters who probably wouldn’t go near a …
Melanie Laurent (The Adopted) serves up a sexy slice of French sisterhood gone sour, starring Josephine Japy and Lou de Laage. Subtitled.
The late Paul Walker stars in an aggressively stupid parkour demonstration that at least has the lowbrow moxie to actually chain a pretty girl to a rocket with a bomb attached to it. Or maybe she's chained next to it; it's not entirely clear, and it doesn't entirely matter. All …
A trust fun kid needs to get married to get at his money, and needs his money to take on his father in the business world. A pretty girl needs rent money to keep her family off the street. Maybe they can work something out! Like, she pretends to be …
For his first narrative feature, documentarian Morgan Matthews (Shooting Bigfoot) learns the hard way that a safe blend of comedy and autism make for an unremarkable movie. Asa Butterfield (Hugo) puts his transient lack of motor reactions to the test as a gifted teenager whose life changes when an unconventional …
The Academy has a long history of rewarding fetching troupers who consent to part from makeup and shampoo long enough to flagrantly play against type. Jennifer Aniston finds out the hard way that the road to Oscar is anything but a cakewalk. Unlike Charlize Theron, who quite literally transformed into …
Dark and mysterious New Girl in Malibu Chloe lures a trio of bright and shiny California kids into her dark and mysterious and just possibly dangerous world. The fun part is that, if you Google this film, the info box gives its title as Leashed, and the lead character's name …
Calvary presents the viewer with a very particular week in the life of a small-town priest in modern Ireland. Father James — played with thickened, toughened, but still lively and sharp-witted humanity by Brendan Gleeson — labors, as we all do, under a sentence of death. The difference in his …
This above-average Sundance fodder stars (Kristen Stewart) as a buck private stationed in Guantanamo who slowly begins to exhibit more compassion for a falsely abducted veteran detainee (Payman Maadi) than her fellow soldiers. Set largely inside a temporary detention facility at Gitmo, first-time writer-director Peter Sattler and cinematographer James Laxton …
Whoever heard of a timely, even necessary superhero movie? And yet here is Captain America, lending a measure of old-fashioned, flag-loving, liberty-defending, patriotic virtue to the very present issues of government surveillance and pre-emptive strikes based on that surveillance. The trouble begins with a factual bit of ignominy: Operation Paperclip, …