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Just when you thought the kids’ movie was lost forever in a cesspool of toilet humor and cartoon violence, along comes a wonderful film like this one, smart and sweet but unsentimental and warmly genuine in its portrait of childhood innocence and the adventure of growing up. The trials of 10-year-old Opal (newcomer AnnaSophia Robb, … more…
Fifteen years ago Bill and Ted took a seriously silly journey to the underworld, and this one is seriously freakishly disturbing. Imagine if Bosch and Dante were 21st-century geeks and they collaborated on a graphic novel (and maybe that’s a good description of Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis’s book *Hellblazer,* upon which this is based, but I don’t know cuz I’ve never seen it).
Painfully aware of how plain vanilla his life is and tired of feeling invisible, Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas: Noel) tries out for a part in a local production of Cyrano de Bergerac… and gets the lead role, despite having no acting experience whatsoever and giving a dreadful audition. Yup, this is another one of those … more…
It looks like a chick flick, but don’t let that fool you, guys: When you get dragged along to *Hitch* this weekend, because it’s Valentine’s Day and for some reason you have to do whatever your ladyfriend wants because some greeting-card company has forced a holiday upon us, you will discover that this is actually every man’s fantasy.
Wow! The most entertaining new Hollywood action movie wasn’t made in Hollywood… it was made in Thailand. A country boy and devotee of the kick-boxing discipline of Muay Thai (Tony Jaa) travels to Bangkok in search of the stolen head of his village’s sacred Buddha statue and gets sucked into its seedy underworld of warring … more…
Oh, how glorious to find a TV miniseries that’s this delightfully grown-up! That it’s also charming, erudite, and witty is the icing on the cake. Laid-off professor of comparative religion Oliver (a rumpled, scrumptious Alan Bates: Spartacus), a fan of wordplay and jazz, teams up with vivacious policewoman Diane (a lovely Sinéad Cusack) to find … more…
Years before 24, in 1995, Steven Bochco (NYPD Blue) gave us Murder One, the story of a single court case told across a TV season’s worth of episodes — 23 in all here, though the series terms them “chapters,” a completely appropriate affectation. The plot — a sordid tale of sex, drugs, blackmail, and of … more…
He’s a renegade who wipes the streets with the scum of the earth. She’s a tough broad… but beautiful. They’re cops! Stephen J. Cannell (Silk Stalkings: The Complete First Season) strikes again — or struck again, in 1984, with Hunter, which would become one of the most popular crime series of the decade. Detective Sergeant … more…
“Just in time for Black History Month” is how the money people would like you to think of this comedy concert film, featuring a slew of standups including Vincent Morris, Rod Man, Chris Spencer, Esau, and Sexy Marlo. Black they may be, but the ghosts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are weeping. There’s nothing … more…
What a curious, beautiful film! Filmmaker Khyentse Norbu, who is supposedly the reincarnation of an important Tibetan lama, gifts us with a small gem that embodies not only the physicality of his gorgeous homeland — this is the first feature film to be shot entirely in the Kingdom of Bhutan, and a breathtaking land it … more…
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