A young musician from a small town in China tries to organize a charity rock concert.
Those living under the Damoclean sword of at-will employment will no doubt find film-buyer Jeon Manhee’s (Kim Min-hee) dismissal without cause easier to accept than her request for a parting selfie with her boss. But that’s nothing compared to the bafflement audiences will experience when confronted with the subsequent story’s …
Pixar has dealt in the themes of memory and/or family for so long that it’s a wonder it took them this long to hit upon The Day of the Dead as a setting. A whole holiday dedicated to honoring and remembering your ancestors, complete with the visual splendor of ofrendas …
Nicholas Hoult, an American expat/ex-car thief living in Germany, comes out of retirement to bankroll a kidney transplant for Felicity Jones, his girlfriend of 30 days. Much of Hoult’s acting style consists of covering his face to deflect shards of laminated safety glass, while Academy Award-nominee Jones bleached her hair …
Other than a prologue flashback to a Transformerzilla-ish creature attacking South Korea, there’s nothing irregular about the setup for this story of an irresponsible drunk (Anne Hathaway) who gets kicked to the curb by her boyfriend and moves back into her parents’ abandoned home. Whether she wants it or not, …
Comedy about a wealthy philanderer who dumps his wife and then proceeds to die on her.
Conor McGregor assumes the Cary Grant role in this remake of the Hitchcock classic. Yeah... right.
A street vendor and a rival three-star Michelin Chef butt heads in an international culinary competition. Wai Man Yip directs.
Lakeith Stanfield has been inching his way toward stardom with memorable work in Short Term 12, Snowden, and Miles Ahead. Crown Heights affords him more screen time than he’s ever had before, but while he’s superb in the lead, the actor’s time would have been better spent on something besides …
Short, sharp, smart drama from writer-director David Freyne stitches together a big Irish quilt of political themes — discrimination, reconciliation, activism, protest, terror, etc. — to wrap around the story of a few sorry souls navigating the aftermath of the Maze virus, which turns its victims into a zombie horde. …
Director Gore Verbinski takes the campy dread of Hammer horror films (Horror of Dracula, et alia) and builds it into a a gorgeous, epic assault on anti-immigration sentiments in Europe and elsewhere. Yes, it’s long and indulgent, littered with loose ends, unexplained details, and a few outright absurdities. But despite …
A rent-a-judge kicks off the hearing by staring down the barrel of the camera and asking her clients (and thus the audience) if they know what happens when a child is sent to family mediation services. The litigation continues for a full fifteen expository-fueled minutes, with mom’s barrister painting a …
Mark Wahlberg recently apologized to God for appearing in Boogie Nights. Satan’s currently warming up a tier in hell for him and the funky bunch of willing participants in this crime against cinema. As in the first installment, there’s a superbly executed avalanche gag, this one involving a snow-blower consuming …
Game of Thrones star Iwan Rheon and Brooke Shields star in this tale of an eleven year-old girl's unconventional, yet deeply loving relationship with her mother and what happens when said relationship is harshly broken.