A floating neon triangle of paranormal healing provides the film with its elaborate title. Kosuke Mikado (Jun Shison) has been seeing dead people for as far back as he can remember. His fate changes the day Rihito Hiyakawa (Masaki Okada) appears on scene, not only possessed with the same psychic …
What makes the 1946 adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham bleak tale of life far, far under the big top so unique was the curious combination of director Edmund Goulding (acclaimed for such “woman’s pictures” as Grand Hotel and Dark Victory), the backing of a Hollywood major (20th Century Fox), and …
Everything moves so fast at the outset. In a little over a minute, two weeks of Hutch’s (Bob Odenkirk) life are condensed with thudding rapidity. The problem with Nobody is that our eponymous nebbish was once a notorious somebody, a retired mob “auditor,” a high-paid contract killer who traded in …
North Hollywood arrives with the tagline: The first ever movie about becoming a pro skater. Mikey Alfred’s distinctively captivating coming-of-age drama (with strong comedic leanings) is clearly set in the present day, something the first time director's seamless flair for blurring decades steadfastly refuses to acknowledge. The fashions scream, “Where …
A white guy in Detroit, 1954, is looking for a reliable black guy, preferably one fresh out of stir, to surrender three hours’ work in exchange for $5000. What’s the catch? It begins along the lines of The Desperate Hours, with two of the armed home invaders (Don Cheadle and …
The series peaked with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but the bean-counters at EON Productions considered it Ian Fleming’s red-headed stepchild. The producers faulted George Lazenby, the first post-Connery 007, for the film’s initial lack of grosses and canned him after one outing. The commonality between that film and this …
The funeral of Maria’s (Sonia Couoh) estranged mother is what brings her to San Mateo. She is the first of three seemingly disparate characters whose lives are destined to intersect over the course of the town’s long holiday weekend celebration. After her father stops short of physically ejecting her from …
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a legacy-minded pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) with billions to spare, and not a dime’s worth of prestige, toys with leaving behind a bridge to better humanity, before optioning the rights to a big screen adaptation of a Nobel prize-winning novel he's never …
While on tropical holiday, a diverse gathering of the idle rich find themselves trapped inside a paradisiacal cove where they age at such an accelerated rate that their offspring meet, date, mate, and conceive before the sun sets. Perhaps the best way to approach this overlong Twilight Zone variation on …
Olga’s (Anastasiia Budiashkina, a real-life gymnast playing a fictional character) reason for leaving Ukraine has as much to do with realizing her dream of making the Swiss Olympic team as it does with personal safety. Ukraine doesn't allow dual citizenship, and the 15-year-old athlete is going to have to follow …
Seventeen-year-old “Andy” enters Eric Daniel Metzgar’s documentary facing four felony charges related to unlawful firearms and a stolen vehicle. Rather than a pixelated mosaic mask to conceal underage Andy’s identity, Metzgar embraces a less traditional approach by animating scenes involving the participation of the minor and his parents. It’s through …
The play’s the thing in this scenical adaptation of playwright/screenwriter Kemp Powers’ fictionalized account of a meeting between NFL great Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.). We open in the Twilight Zone: it’s February 1964, and upon his …
Korea’s answer to The Wolf of Wall Street (The Phish of Seoul?) is this gatling-gun paced action derby that puts its current Hollywood counterparts to shame. The real villain in the piece is not ex-cop Han (Yo-Han Byun) or even his snakey superior VP Jeon (Kim Mu-yeol in a performance …
It would be one thing if Palmer (Justin Timberlake) were the type to drop Sam (Lance Nichols) at the nearest precinct house and let the police sort things out until wayward mother Shelly (Juno Temple) turned up. (Her Jean Kasem braid pulled tighter than a ship’s anchor, Shelly conveniently disappears …
Leave it to Pedro Almodóvar to slap a fresh coat of Technicolor enamel on that most reviled made-for-TV variant: the switched-at-birth melodrama. Two mothers, two accidents, and numerous unexpected twists come to a boil in this, the filmmaker’s definitive statement on motherhood, melodrama, and the unhealthy allegiance that’s formed when …