“It’s a kids’ movie!” Well, no, not quite, not when the theme is middle-aged obsolescence and finding meaning beyond personal achievement. Not when the unhappy fate that horrifies star racecar Lightning McQueen is forced retirement and transformation into a brand. And definitely not when more effort shows in the photorealistic …
It’s five days before shooting commences, and Vera (Judith Engel) — it’s the third film for the documentarian, and her first dramatic digression — can’t seem to make up her mind over who should play the lead role of Fassbinder’s broken-but-still-capable-of-loving fashion designer in this TV remake of The Bitter …
A young man, mentally and physically tortured by his foster parents, searches for his biological parents. This fact-based family film is directed by Mark Vadik.
Scientists and filmmakers fight to save dying coral reefs. Jeff Orlowski directs.
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord. Donnie Yen stars and Jason Kwan and Jing Wong direct.
Performance film starring stand-up comedian Chonda Pierce, aka the Queen of Clean.
You're welcome to this documentary look into the life of woman-beater and all around a'hole, Chris Brown.
The trailer for The Circle jerked audiences in the direction of a paranoid thriller of universal proportion, but all director James Ponsoldt (Smashed, The Spectacular Now) could make good on was a wormhole of narcissism down which he could make his latest film spiral. Mae (Emma Watson) won the lottery …
An important story that loses something in the telling. There is, admittedly, something shocking in saying that a documentary which includes footage of a man being executed via crucifixion lacks any kind of immediacy and/or viscerality. (To say nothing of the shock involved in seeing such a thing at all.) …