A harried husband decides to find a man who will get his wife off his back — by laying her onto hers. Directed by Enrique Begne. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Buster is a happily married (if not entirely happy) young dad working the night concierge desk in a remote mountainside hotel. He’s also a bearded crank who breaks into luxury homes and calls in to radio shows to rant about "the coming inversion." He’s also lost at sea and daring …
Five friends, in one log house, surrounded by numerous flesh-eating neighbors. Sound familiar? It should, seeing how only fourteen years separate this from its predecessor. Not since Gus Van Sant plunged a knife in Psycho have we witnessed such an unnecessary remake. Had Quentin Tarantino upped the number of “Hatefuls” …
Woody Allen gives a tour of Woody Allenland, complete with gentle and largely unnecessary narration. Unnecessary for the movie, that is. But it’s just possible that this is something else: a primer of sorts, a re-introduction of the old guy’s schtick to a generation that’s only ever read about him …
A woman sets out to rescue her goddaughters from their wicked father, who intends to sell them into sexual slavery in order to cover his drug debts. Along the way, she gets help from a rich man, a Special Forces soldier, and quite possibly, God.
This plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to their catalog, "Estela, a young girl living in Brazil during the mid-80’s, is struggling with adolescence and trying to understand sex, love, and friendships. Her only dream is to travel to California to visit her uncle Carlos, …
At the outset, cinematographer Kirsten Johnson asks us to consider this collection of footage she shot for various documentaries as her memoir, because while only a few actually depict her personal life (as mother to twins and as daughter of an Alzheimer’s sufferer), she says that “these are the images …
A comic-book movie in the pejorative sense of the term, starting with the bizarre moral acrobatics required to set up the internal strife mentioned in the title. Sure, members of the Avengers saved the world a few times over, but innocents died in the process, and so someone’s got to …
Say this for writer-director Matt Ross: he is not shy about making his intentions clear from the outset. In the opening sequence, a young man ambushes and kills a deer in the primordial Oregon forest using only a knife. As his mud-caked family emerges from the surrounding undergrowth, his father …
Those dopey enough to buy into the “based on a true story” disclaimer that opens the film are doomed to enjoy this minimal ‘70’s throwback about a crazed Vietnam vet (Pat Healy) and the hostage of a botched bank robbery (Ashley Bell) he puts through the paces of an Ed …
The premise is an agreeably loopy take on the notion that no good deed goes unpunished: when chubby teenager Robby Weirdicht (Dwayne Johnson) gets tossed naked and wet in front of a school assembly, superstar senior Calvin “Golden Jet” Joyner (Kevin Hart) lends him his letterman jacket for coverage. Twenty …
Don’t expect Certain Women’s tale of four disparate Montana women whose lives crisscross to end with the quartet comfortably telescoping in one central locale. The opening section, involving Laura Dern as a lawyer whose male client places more faith in the judgment of a man than a woman, is fairly …