Convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends who couldn't be more different. From suburban Cleveland in the 60s, to New York City in the 80s, where they meet an older woman, the film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the ...
At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, Revolution Studios' Across the Universe is an original movie musical springing from the imagination of renowned director Julie Taymor (Frida, Titus, and the Broadway smash hit musical The Lion King) and writers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (The Commitments).
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a married prosecutor and defense attorney assigned to the same case in this compelling courtroom battle of the sexes. Judy Holliday co-stars.
Our Take: A classic, crackling comedy featuring Tracy & Hepburn at their peak.
Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau - following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small - town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames - within - frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children ...
All the Real Girls is set in a small mill town that gets smaller and more run down with each passing year. Paul (Paul Schneider) has lived here all his life, never been out of the country. It's never really occurred to him. He lives a cozy, affectionate life with his mom, Elvira (Patricia Clarkson) and he works as a ...
An impossible romance between Molly, a 21 year old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen–year–old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Married for almost 50 years, Grant's (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona's (Julie Christie) commitment to each other appears unwavering. Their daily life is filled with tenderness and humor; yet this serenity is broken by Fiona's increasingly evident memory loss - and her restrained references to a past betrayal. For a while, the couple is able to casually dismiss these unwelcome changes. ...
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Remember Julie Christie, sex symbol of the 1970s? She’s still as talented as ever, and in this tender, heart-wrenching film, she delivers one of the finest performances of her career as a happily married Canadian woman suffering the ravaging effects of Alzheimer’s.
Jill was everything from senior class president, drama club president, to editor of the newspaper. Sheik was a woodshop monitor. Two very different students, they still fall in love. John Sayles's film is a vivid portrait of first love during the 1960s.
Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general he drives for, who prostitutes herself for pleasure. Marcos confesses his guilt to her in his troubled search for relief. And then finds himself on his knees amidst the multitude of ...
Jesse, a writer from the US, and Celine, a Frenchwoman working for an environment protection organization, acquainted nine years ago on the train from Budapest to Vienna, meet again when Jesse arrives in Paris for a reading of his new book. As they have only a few hours until his plane leaves, they stroll through Paris, talking about their experiences, ...
Our Take: One of the most romantic and realistic romances ever made.
Roong longs for the day when she can be in the arms of her Burmese lover, Min, an illegal immigrant. One afternoon Roong and Min have a picnic in the jungle where they feel free to express their love. Orn, a friend of Roong`s, is also in the jungle with her lover, with whom she has found all the pleasure ...
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil rig worker Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. She is somewhat simple, and has difficulty living without him when he is away on the oil platform. She prays for his return, ...
In a startling mature and nuanced performance, Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes.
Our Take: See this film by the daughter of indie pioneer John Cassavetes for Posey’s fine performance as an unlucky-in-love career gal, as well as for smart supporting work by The Sopranos’ Drea De Matteo, fedora-clad Frenchman Melvil Poupaud, and the incomparable Gena Rowlands. Plus, Justin Theroux’s turn as a narcissistic actor nearly steals the show.
Having just served 5 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown (Gallo)'s first desperate post-incarceration action is to desperately search for somewhere to relieve himself. Then, to impress his dunceish, thoroughly neglectful parents, Gallo kidnaps a dance class student called Layla (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife. Layla allows herself to ...
Our Take: Director Vincent Gallo is a true original and he has made one of the most original, surprisingly beautiful modern love stories we've ever seen. And watching Ben Gazzara and Angelica Huston as an old married couple is reason alone to see this movie!
Big city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting all-star comedy that had audiences and critics rolling in the aisles! John Cusack (Serendipity, High Fidelity) stars as David Shayne, an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground -- even if it means teaming up with the mob! Surrounded by ...
Eighteen-year-old Mathieu is vacationing at the beach with his family when he meets local teen Cédric. After an extremely erotic kiss, the boys begin a hot and heavy affair, complete with skinny-dipping at night, nude dancing on the beach and intense lovemaking in the dunes. Yet as Mathieu grapples with his sexuality and copes with his sick mother, absent father ...
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, whose previous film, City Of God, won awards all over the world--and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Oscars--has crafted another highly entertaining yet important film. Beautifully shot in Kenya, Germany, Sudan, Manitoba, and London, The Constant Gardener, based on a bestselling novel by John Le ...
Advice columnist Dan Burns (Steve Carell) has his hands full with three daughters that he’s not willing to let grow up. The girls still grieve for their mother who died four years ago, and Dan hasn’t made any attempts to date.