The ride offers more motivation and depth of character than the movie. Think The African Queen if Katherine Hepburn had to ward off computer generated marine life and Bogey had a 25-inch neck. With no story to speak of other than finding an arrowhead, the plot experiences more climaxes than …
The ride offers more motivation and depth of character than the movie. Think The African Queen if Katherine Hepburn had to ward off computer generated marine life and Bogey had a 25-inch neck. With no story to speak of other than finding an arrowhead, the plot experiences more climaxes than …
Sam has been on a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. He returns home from boarding school to find his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth, has moved in. Ruth is an ex-war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the bottle. Sam soon finds himself profoundly …
For years, "The Reader" covered the local surf film festival before it became obvious that for every Big Wednesday and Storm Surfers 3D, there are an endless number of cookie-cutter variations content with placing a camera inside a curl and hoping for the best. It’s no secret that few provide …
Potential sponsors looked upon Richard Williams (Will Smith) as just another tennis-father, a man whose pride and determination blinded him to the likelihood his daughters Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) had a better chance of managing a Dick’s Sporting Goods than they did becoming the reigning Queens of …
I entered this spy franchise prequel cold after having called in sick for the two previous installments. Matthew Vaughn once again takes writer-director credit and were one to remove the CG gore effects and the occasional incompatible f-bombs (did they really curse in such a manner at the dawn of …
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from a housewife into a vengeful militant. Directed by Teodora Ana Mihai, starring Arcelia Ramírez, Álvaro Guerrero, and Jorge A. …
A cautionary fable for those whose dream it is to escape the horrors of reality by ditching car and cell phone and swapping out big-city turmoil for a calming, less complicated existence in a remote Wyoming cabin. That’s precisely the direction Edee’s (Robin Wright, making her feature directorial debut) existential …
With Eastwood, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger lighting up screens in the ‘90s, one had very little time to devote to the mulletted likes of ancillary action heroes Chuck Norris or Jean-Claude Van Damme. The bar was reset for the latter with the release of JCVD. With one foot extended high over …
It’s been a grand year for Edgar Wright, with back-to-back releases of his two most stylistically intuitive works to date: the documentary The Sparks Brothers and this sumptuously mod throwback to the swinging’ 60s when Carnaby Street was the style center of the world. It’s a period Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) …
La fine della civiltà è arrivata. Non sappiamo come. Un padre e suo figlio, un ragazzino di quattordici anni, sono tra i pochi superstiti: la loro esistenza, su una palafitta in riva a un lago, è ridotta a lotta per la sopravvivenza. Non c’è più società, ogni incontro con gli …
Whither were thee in ‘73? Watching American Graffiti. It's no coincidence that Paul Thomas Anderson nostalgic tale of coming of age in the Valley opens the same year as George Lucas’ terrestrial masterwork (and with a filched cherry bomb in the boy’s room). The controversial age gap between our heretofore …
A declaration of love to writer Thomas Brasch, an obsessive dreamer and rebel whose very first play is banned. Starring Albrecht Schuch.
Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon (Denzel Washington), a Bakersfield cop with a spiritual side (hence the nickname) and a tainted past as an L.A. Detective, is assigned a return trip to his roots to pick up a pair of blood-stained boots. But rather than retrieving the evidentiary material, all Deke seems able …