It may be possible — perhaps by squinting and turning your head just so and maybe crossing your eyes a touch — to see why director George Clooney juxtaposes, at a climactic moment, the sick comedic violence of a man finding himself unable to extract his golf club from the …
You know the army of faceless goons that so many superhero movies offer up? The ones that are either terrifyingly badass (bullets don’t work!) or goofily lame (but baseball bats do!), depending on the needs of the moment? Well, say this for writer-director David Ayer: in his superhero movie, those …
If everybody else jumped off a cliff, you might not follow suit. But Carl Boenish, the subject of this documentary, would still have wanted to share the feeling of it with you, most likely via his helmet-mounted 16mm camera. For the founder of BASE jumping, plunging thousands of feet along …
Director J.J. Abrams’s spot-on remake of Steven Spielberg’s ’80s ode to the feeling of childhood, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. It’s all there: the broken home, the mysterious Visitor (more frightening this time, but as in Abrams’s Cloverfield, still somewhat beside the point), the looming shadow of grown-up authority. What is new …
Japan was nuked and is surrounded by water; combine those, and you get the irradiated beast Godzilla rising from the depths to destroy Tokyo. Japan also suffers earthquakes and is surrounded by water; combine those, and you get an orphan girl (guess how Mom died in a post-Fukushima world) who …
Japan was nuked and is surrounded by water; combine those, and you get the irradiated beast Godzilla rising from the depths to destroy Tokyo. Japan also suffers earthquakes and is surrounded by water; combine those, and you get an orphan girl (guess how Mom died in a post-Fukushima world) who …
Japan was nuked and is surrounded by water; combine those, and you get the irradiated beast Godzilla rising from the depths to destroy Tokyo. Japan also suffers earthquakes and is surrounded by water; combine those, and you get an orphan girl (guess how Mom died in a post-Fukushima world) who …
Just awful story of arrested development mistaken for preserved youth. Clips of the real-life game of grownup tag between friends that served as inspiration here are shown at the end, and have the no-doubt unintended effect of revealing what is missing in director Jeff Tomsic’s take: joy, friendship, humanity, and …
Just awful story of arrested development mistaken for preserved youth. Clips of the real-life game of grownup tag between friends that served as inspiration here are shown at the end, and have the no-doubt unintended effect of revealing what is missing in director Jeff Tomsic’s take: joy, friendship, humanity, and …
Tired of movies that are either based on or feel like video games? Then how about a movie that actually incorporates multiple video-game motifs, from life-levels to motion indicators to pop-up data points? Not in the cutesy, self-conscious, Scott Pilgrim way, but naturally, as if such things were part and …
That would be the Mississippi, specifically, the part that flows through the one-time musical Mecca of Memphis. The documentary takes its structure from the recording of an album that pairs up various Stax records legends (Bobby Bland and Mavis Staples are just two of the standouts) with more modern artists …
The latest from Studio Ghibli is director and co-writer Isao Takahata's take on a Japanese folktale about a tiny girl found in a bamboo stalk. She rapidly grows into a great beauty, but to her adoptive father's dismay, she seems unusually hesitant to marry. The updates mostly have to do …
At first, you might think the title of this sometimes gorgeous, sometimes visceral offering from Matteo Garrone is a sort of superlative, something like Your Show of Shows. And who could blame you? The film opens with a barren queen (Salma Hayek) visited by a spectral stranger who tells her …
Very much a live-action cartoon (albeit one just Dark 'n Gritty enough to merit a PG-13 rating), right down to lines like, "Drain all of their blood — even if it kills them!" Some actors (Megan Fox) try much harder than others (Whoopi Goldberg) in this tale of plucky, pretty …