Starring: Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes, Jackson Wurth, Ross Thomas, Katie Walder, Albert Reed, Joy Gohring, Matt Bushell
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Forced to give up his dreams of art school in order to take care of his family, Zach has become accustomed to a life where he neglects his own needs in favor of taking [...]
The Paris of Christophe Honoré’s “Love Songs” (“Les Chansons d’Amour”) belongs unmistakably to the present. Its residents talk on cellphones and drop the name of Nicolas Sarkozy (still an aspirant to the Élysée Palace rather than an occupant when the movie was being shot). But they also dwell, just as noticeably, in the Paris of [...]
No, the deluge of Asian fright films remade in Hollywood hasn’t dried up yet. Not by the evidence of “Shutter,” produced by people behind the American versions of “The Grudge” and “The Ring” and itself a remake of the 2004 Thai film “Shutter.” Fans of J-horror (for Japan, where the genre was born; its conventions [...]
It can’t be easy being Brenda, the woebegone Chicago mom played by Angela Bassett in “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.” She supports three kids from three different (but equally absent) daddies, has run out of stall tactics for her many creditors and, when things couldn’t get any worse, loses her job.
Not to worry. Brenda is [...]
I’m fairly certain one reason that the French director Olivier Assayas made “Boarding Gate” is that he wanted to watch the Italian actress Asia Argento strut around in black underwear and punishing heels. And why not? Ms. Argento looks delectable if somewhat demented in “Boarding Gate,” in which she comes across as a postmodern Pearl [...]
