Tragic and ironic disability. Crippling grief. Implacable personal demons. It sounds weird, but this is hilarious stuff. This impressive second feature from music-video director Michael Dowse pulses with energy and passion and the groove of the rave scene, but its affecting power is fueled by the true story of deejay Frankie Wilde, whose life of … more…

So — and this would have been around the time the 1979 *Amityville Horror* came out — there was this kid I went to elementary school with on Long Island, and he used to regale us with stories of the real Amityville Horror house, because he used to live on the same street, and this, in the annals of kiddom, was as good as having wielded a murderous axe himself.

Why did the most successful marauding army in the history of the world, the Mongols, turn away from fresh, guaranteed conquest and head for home at the height of their plundering? ‘They found out their leader died,’ high-school student Pete Winters says to his summer-school teacher, with an air of discovery that has nothing to do with the scholarly. He probably doesn’t realize it — Pete is even more sullen and withdrawn, and less self-aware, than most teenagers, though with good reason — but his insight comes from his own personal experience with spirit-crushing discouragement and despair.

If the word ‘pitch’ weren’t coincidentally associated with both football and baseball, allowing the producers of this new film to retain the title, you’d never know there was any relationship between the two films.

Romantic comedies don’t come any blander or more generic than this one. Four adult sisters come together for the wedding of one of them, and the predictably disparate paths they’ve taken cause mild friction, until it no longer does. Niki (Brooke Langton) is an actress, starring in a Baywatch–type boobfest; Chrissy (screenwriter and director Vanessa … more…