Utterly unreal space story from Luc Besson (he of The Fifth Element fame), who seems to have watched James Cameron’s Avatar and decided he could make it sillier, more scattered, and less emotionally engaging. (Score one for Cameron’s brand of painfully earnest sentiment?) So once again, we are treated to …
Four souls gather in Sonny’s bar and try to hold off the encroaching dark. And, boy, does it encroach, with victims disappearing in an instant, leaving only their clothes behind. Director Brad Anderson manages to produce a spooky mood but not much more, and there are enough non sequiturs to …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Roman Polanski directs a film (based on a play by the same name) about a director who is trying to cast a play (which he wrote, also by the same name) based on a book written by the man whose name gave us the term “masochism.” There are only two …
Ten years ago, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) graduated from SoCal's Neptune High and walked away from her life as a teenage private eye. Eventually, she went to law school - though not before dealing with a leaked undergrad sex tape (we ain't on TV any more, folks). But just before …
It's not hard to figure out why the promotional campaign trumpets "from Executive Producer Terrence Malick" for writer-director Julio Quintana's story of a ruined seaside village where all the women started wearing black (and stopped getting pregnant) after a wave claimed several dozen schoolchildren. (Well, all the women except one: …
Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) directs an account of the British transfer of power in India that is at once too personal and too political; perhaps with another half-hour of runtime, she might have done justice to both. As it is, neither aspect feels fully realized, the former too …
Toward the end of her life, Queen Victoria — the Empress of India, despite never having set foot in that country — took an interest in, and eventually befriended, a young Indian clerk sent to attend her golden jubilee. Her Majesty (played here with magnificent, exhausted humanity by Judi Dench) …
Score one for conventional what-about-the-children morality, as represented with towering dignity and withering scorn by Isabella Rossellini in director Chanya Button’s account of the swooning, seething, but decidedly unloving romance between literary author Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki, willowy) and popular author Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton, sartorial). Both women are engaged …
More than a love letter to Lovecraft, but less than a well-crafted creature feature. If only writer-directors Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie had lavished as much love and attention on plot and structure as they clearly did on production and theme, this supernatural ickfest might have been more than a …
The Camino de Santiago is a Christian pilgrim trail that stretches across Spain for 500 miles and ends at the reputed tomb of the apostle James. Back when it was a pagan pilgrim trail, it continued on to a stretch of beach known as "the End of the World." Today, …