Can the ghost of a brokenhearted girl save the man she loves from the terrible power of the spirit-women who dance men to death?
Dance me a diamond, would you, darling?
It's Christmas. Take your little ballerina-in-training to see how the big people do it.
Mmmmm...cannibal Western with a killer cast. Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler.
The torch has been passed...to Naruto's son! Anime from director Hiroyuki Yamashita, subtitled.
Nothing frosts my ass more than a cartoon feature that doesn’t put to use the limitless imaginative possibilities of creating an animated universe made up entirely of pen and ink (and now, pixels). Not much happens in this story of a young runaway brought to act as an apprentice in …
When conservatives bash Hollywood, it's for films like this, with their trashy, lurid, depictions of extramarital sex between lusty moms (Jennifer Lopez, fit and flaunting at 45) and hunky high-school boys (Ryan Guzman, 27 playing 19). When liberals bash Hollywood, it's for films like this, with their themes of inevitable …
A lighthearted/darkhearted romp through modern misery, frontloaded with imagination and light on the finish. Theodicy — the contrasting of a supposedly all-good, all-powerful God with the manifest evil in the world — is a matter for theologians (or at least Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman). Jaco Van Dormael’s cuddly-caustic …
A guy with a band meets a girl with a voice, and they set out to make beautiful music together.
Call it Mr. Donovan goes to East Berlin. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks team up for a handsome piece of very pointed nostalgia (with help from the Coen Brothers and Matt Charman, who handled the script, and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, lens set to "stately."). Hanks is private citizen and shrewd …
Into a time when audiences are being bombarded with thinkfree technology or jiggled to death by indie indifference comes Brooklyn, a three Kleenex (boxes), straight-forwardly emotional little period melodrama about a timid (though not for long) young Irish immigrant (Saoirse Ronan) finding her way through 1950s New York. There are …
Young and black in Philadelphia, the City of...
A vampire masquerades as a priest in this locally produced horror comedy. This took home the Best Guerrilla Feature award at the 2015 Temecula Independent Film Festival.