John Wells follows his half-baked August: Osage County with another recipe for disaster. “You have to be a prick to make it in this business,” announces a character in most flattering terms around the same time Gordon Ramsay’s name appears in the opening credits as executive producer. That may explain …
WWJDD, an acronym to live by. Space Jam, The Phantom, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Men, just this weekend during Fantastic Four...how many times has the question chugged through my mind like a ticker tape: What would Joe Dante do? But when genius goes wrong, nothing goes right: Chaplin rang down …
Documentary from Adam Finberg on troubles within the addiction recovery industry.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt star as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Kidding. Mostly. Anyway, there's a troubled marriage on the French Coast. Written and directed by Ms. Jolie Pitt.
If the goal is to reheat a chestnut, the least a director can do is hold the material to the flame. That’s precisely how Francisco Varone’s debut feature manages to keep fresh this timeworn two-hander about a pair of mismatched souls placed in close confines and sent on a spiritual …
Remember when kids wanted to be astronauts?
The easy descriptors for Todd Haynes's take on Patricia Highsmith’s tale of socially unacceptable female relationships during the early ’50s are words like “sumptuous,” “ravishing,” and maybe “entrancing” (that last thanks to a command performance from Cate Blanchett as a failed wife, loving mother, and motherly lover). But the more …
Director Matthew Heineman documents the lives of two vigilante group leaders, one on each side of the US-Mexico border: Tim "Nailer" Foley of Arizona Border Recon, and Dr. Jose "El Doctor" Mireles of the Michoacan Autodefensas. Both are fighting the Mexican drug cartels — though Mireles' struggle has the urgency …
In case you hadn't heard, 2015 is the year of the podcast. This is a celebration of that.
The opening shot from writer-director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is packed so full of visual information that it would take a mausoleum to house it all. From the distanced perspective of a front porch, we watch as soldiers oversee a pair of earth-grinding steam shovels. The veranda is attached to a small …
Director Neill Blomkamp goes back to the single-city, small-scale sci-fi of District 9, but keeps the super-sized ambition of Elysium in this story of a busted police droid who becomes the world's first sentient robot, thanks to nerd God Dev Patel. The result is frequently messy to the point of …
Animator Bill Plympton trades the surreal for the fantastical and the satirical for the sincere with this story of, yes, true love tested and triumphant. (What he doesn't leave behind is frank physicality; it's a rare film about sweetness and romance that features so much pneumatic action.) Jake and Ella …
Every little breeze seems to whisper unease in this one-location, one-joke comedy. We never know exactly why our six anal-retentive alpha males cruise the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht, but one thing’s for certain: every minute of their time together will be spent competing for your attention. From housecleaning …