Tucked away in the basement of a Tokyo office building, in a drab corridor attached to a subway station, the…
Michal has a problem. His name is Janek. Janek has a problem. His name is Michal. The two friends, ex-hoodlums,…
An inspirational sports tearjerker in distilled form, this new Harvey Weinstein–hawked doc lands in North Memphis, where the underfunded, all-black…
If you’ve ever wanted, in a non-ironic, non-hipster sort of way, to attend a semi-pro wrestling match in small-town North…
The abundant charm of first-time actor James Rolleston, playing the 11-year-old of the title, doesn’t quite save this aimless, nostalgia-woozy…
Directed by Daniel Schneidkraut, Invincible Force first presents itself as some YouTube video diary from a slovenly metalhead janitor in…
Not to be confused with Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, the biopic that played town last October, this French made-for-TV documentary,…
Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process (the phrase “dancing about architecture” springs to mind),…
A withering indictment of endless spectacle, the first volume of Suzanne Collins’ astronomically successful dystopic YA trilogy was inspired, she…
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 and…
Rogue comic Will Ferrell recently turned up in an Old Milwaukee commercial exclusively for the Davenport, Iowa, local market; the…
Director Joshua Marston demonstrated his ability to sustain almost unbearable dramatic tension in his debut feature film, Maria Full of…
Considered an infomercial for cult animator Bill Plympton, the documentary Adventures in Plymptoons! suffers from two main defects. First, there…
Infinitely better as a beer-goggled pitch than as a feature film, The FP never gets beyond the studied novelty of…
Written and directed by Paul Weitz (American Dreamz), Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit…
“There was this creature with huge eyes and an enormous red mouth,” recalls Bruce Vilanch on first seeing Carol Channing…
With her ponytail and toggle coat, Audrey Tautou, playing workaholic widow Nathalie in Delicacy, gives off a sexless, cutie-pie charm—not…
It’s obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He’s got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections…
“Books should smell good,” says Gerhard Steidl. That they do, when made by the famed German printer of art and…
“I really dislike music,” says a cop ironically named Amadeus, and this ingenious Swedish comedy soon makes it clear why….
