This “Classics Illustrated” adaptation of Jane Austen is worth a look strictly for the performance of Anya Taylor-Joy, the baby moon-eyed wonderment so perfectly suited for the role, you’d swear she was born in 1815. Alas, actors don’t make movies, directors do, and photographer-turned-fledgling-filmmaker Autumn de Wilde never finds a …
We open in mid-misfortune: Chris (Nicholas Hamilton) is in the passenger seat, three beers to the wind, his designated driver girlfriend Riley (Alexandra Shipp) texting behind the wheel, and two oncoming cars screeching along on their way to put an end to love. At least in this world. Survivor’s guilt …
Or: Lars (Will Ferrell) and the real actress (Rachel McAdams). We open in 1974 with an Icelandic nod to The Jazz Singer: only over Erick Erickssong’s (Pierce Brosnan) dead body will his son Lars be allowed to appear on the world’s largest televised singing competition. From that seed grows a …
Under the neon lights in Hong Kong's nightscape, the lives of a contract killer and his infatuated partner, a drifter searching for her ex-lover, and an eccentric mute wanted by the police, all cross paths. Written and directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie …
For those who like their fantasies rated PG-13.
What better cure for suspecting your wife of cheating is there than engaging in casual sex with a stranger? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, except when you’re wealthy sports agent Derrick Tyler (Michael Ealy), whose one night stand turns out to be the same not-quite-done-with-him L.A. detective (Hilary …
The 6 Oscar nominations confirmed my worst fears. Congratulations to Sir Anthony Hopkins for finally checking “Alzheimer’s Patient” off his acting bucket list. Hello, what’s this? It was directed by the same guy who wrote the play, Florian Zeller. You know what that means? Characters may come and go, but …
The premise suggests a potential wellspring of divertissement: in the midst of a likely government shutdown of Santa’s workshop, Billy (Chance Hurstfield), a rich kid who didn’t get what he wants for Christmas, hires a hitman (Walter Goggins) to ice Father Frost. The writing and directing team of Eshom Nelms …
We open with a quote from Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor, that couldn’t be more pertinent if it were spoken today: “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.” …
Dad (Matthew Goode) might have used his surprise holiday as an excuse to reconcile with Mom. Instead, his son Ross (Teddie Malleson-Allen) is greeted at the lake house by her replacement parent (Paula Patton) and his surrogate siblings Maudie (Ellie-Mae Siame) and the smashingly appointed Smash (Ashley Aufderheide). Forced to …
How does the military honor a soldier shot down on the field of battle? By firing rifles into the sky. Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be soldiers. Zohara Antebi left her son's circumcision in mid-celebration after overhearing one of the women standing cradle side remark, "What a …
The superimposed text reads “Wednesday the 11th,” but its purpose is not to establish time, place, or even herald a film-within-a-film parody. For all the good it does, the latest Blumhouse Production might just as well greet us with: Warning: Secondhand Horror Comedy Ahead. Not that the idea of spinning …
Agreeably profane caper comedy from Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) a man who tosses off the c-word as casually as you or I would sound asking a dinner companion to pass the salt. Matthew McConaughey stars as an American expatriate pot farmer in England, minding his …