[8] Two friends (Cooper Koch and Jose Colon) swallow bagged drugs to smuggle them over the Canadian border for some quick cash. But when they’re assaulted at a rest stop, one of the bags bursts and creates a medical emergency that quickly spirals into a fight for survival. The young men are kidnapped at gunpoint by their dealer (Donnie Darko‘s Jena Malone) and brought to …
[8] In an alternate reality where dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, a young Apatosaurus named Arlo is separated from his family and must find his way home with the hope of a feral human child he dubs “Spot”. Along their journey together, the two develop a bond, get roped into helping a trio T-Rexes herd their buffalo, and entangle with a dangerous group of winged Pterodactyls …
[8] A gay couple who own a drag show cabaret must pretend to be straight when their son invites his fiancée’s Christian conservative family to meet them for dinner. The Birdcage is an American remake of a French film, which is based on the play “La Cage aux Folles”. Upping the ante for our expectations of remakes and adaptations is the involvement of director Mike …
[8] Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn star in this sprawling, family melodrama set in early twentieth century Montana, where the Ludlow family works their ranch in the untamed wilderness. Hopkins plays the patriarch, a pacifist and single father who is dismayed when his sons express desire to enlist in the first World War. Pitt and Quinn play the elder brothers, and Henry Thomas …
[8] Paul Verhoeven (Soldier of Orange, RoboCop) brings his devil-may-care attitude toward sex and morality to this slice-of-life story about three young Dutch boys who dream of escaping their restrained provincial lives by winning motor cross competitions. One of the boys, Rien (Hans van Tongeren), has a real chance of unseating the current champion (Rutger Hauer), while Eef (Toon Agterberg) struggles with his sexual identity in dark ways, …
[8] Mel Gibson headlines this M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) sci-fi thriller about a single father (Gibson) of two young children and his younger brother (Joaquin Phoenix) who discover mysterious crop circles in their fields. Signs unfolds like George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, depicting a global nightmare — in this case, alien invasion — from the claustrophobic perspective of one family …
[9] With this re-telling of Dracula and Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) re-solidifies his position as the most exciting artist working in cinema today. Eggers casts Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult as a Ellen and Thomas Hutter, a young couple living in 1838 Germany. Their lives are torn apart when Thomas, a real estate agent, is called upon to visit Transylvania where …
[8] The Earthling is an odd, disconcerting sort of film that nevertheless casts a spell and is a bit hard to shake when it’s over. It stars William Holden (Sunset Boulevard) in his penultimate film performance, playing a terminally ill man who returns home to his native Australia to die alone in the vast wilderness. Once there, he lives off the land, sleeping in makeshift …
[9] One of the surest ways a film can win my heart is by letting me into the lives of characters aching for healing who achieve genuine, emotional human connection. It’s why I love films like Pump Up the Volume, The Breakfast Club, Sideways, or Little Miss Sunshine. Telling this kind of story convincingly and without too much sentimentality is an astonishingly difficult thing for …
[8] Writer/director Quentin Tarantino wraps up his cartoonish revenge tale with all the returning cast and crew. Vol. 2 is less visceral and more character-oriented than Vol. 1, taking us back to the fateful day when the eponymous Bill ordered his Deadly Viper Assassination Squad to murder Uma Thurman’s ‘Bride’ character and everyone else at her wedding rehearsal. It also features Thurman’s battles with the …
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