"Everything you would imagine a metal concert in South America would be." "Two nights, sixteen cameras, one incredible experience."
Makes the case that the medium isn't just the message, it's the magic. Specifically, there's a reason why a painting on a movie poster can do a better job of capturing the spell-casting power of cinema than a photograph can. At least when the painter is humble workaday genius Drew …
A friendship between a pair of ‘spoken for’ co-workers at a Chicago brewery gradually heats up in what has to be the sweetest, most romantic, and non-judgmental 90 minutes you’ll ever spend in the company of functioning alcoholics. With top comedic performances in Butter and now Drinking Buddies, Olivia Wilde …
Here’s one war that I loved being dragged through. Johnnie To’s latest logical progression of action scenes (and his first mainland production) is this nifty thriller concerning a high profile Chinese meth dealer (Louis Koo) forced to go undercover to avoid facing the firing squad. Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei) is …
Sarah (star and cowriter Brit Marling) is a rising star at a private espionage agency who gets assigned to infiltrate the titular domestic protest organization. The East does punishment-fits-the-crime work: flooding the home of an oil exec with the same crude that his company spilled all over a coastline, etc. …
A 17-year-old takes over his uncle's rent-by-the-hour motel in Veracruz, Mexico. Written and directed by Aarón Fernández Lesur.
Brilliant young tactician Ender Wiggin is called upon to defend earth from nasty foreign invaders — and you know what they say about what makes the the best defense. Not for nothing does space commander Harrison Ford say that "What we need is a Julius Caesar, a Napoleon." But while …
A nasty, self-destructive masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) learns that a client (Catherine Keener) is the former wife of her new squeeze (James Gandolfini) and quickly uses whatever information she can glean to sabotage their relationship. Nicole Holofcener (Lovely and Amazing, Please Give) moves far off-center with this contrived chick-flick. Running gags …
As Pixar gets digested by Disney, Blue Sky Studios steps up and takes its shot at the title for innovative animated storytelling. (The CG animation itself is pretty innovative as well, particularly when it comes to water, sunlight, and facial expressions.) The biggest success is at the level of emotion: …
It sounded so cool: a movie made on the sly inside a Disney theme park. Someone's sticking it to the Mouse! But the trailer? Eh, maybe. Still, it's a start. Next time, they can take on the Princesses.
Sylvester Stallone back in stir, this time as a professional jailbreaker hired by penal institutions to go undercover and test the impregnability of maximum security prisons. The implausibility of the opening escape is made clear in a flashback. Sly is assigned a different institution to crack, and the moment fellow …