Girl, written, directed and starring Chad Faust (“Better Start Running”), is effective when it comes to mood and atmosphere. The problem, however, is that there isn’t enough substance to make Faust’s stylish choices mean something, so this thriller comes across as more empty that gratifying. It begins with the titular “Girl” (Bella Thorne, “The Babysitter:…
Piggybacking on the commercial (if not critical) success of other overstuffed vignette-driven holiday-centric movies such as “Love, Actually,” “Valentine’s Day,” and “New Year’s Eve,” Berlin, I Love You is the fourth installment in the “Cities of Love” franchise. This iteration, like those lovingly set in Paris, New York and Rio previously, follows way too many…
If extra-terrestrial visitors eventually show up on Earth’s doorstep in flying saucers powered by anti-gravity reactors and then announce they’ve been here before, Bob Lazar will have dibs on a very exasperated “I told you so!” That’s pretty much the chief takeaway from Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell’s cheapo documentary with the no-nonsense title Bob Lazar:…
The treachery in Sin City is peaking in this second trailer for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and it is Senator Roark (Powers Booth) who is prominently displayed pulling the strings on all the interconnected storylines. Fan favorites including Nancy (Jessica Alba), Marv (Mickey Rourke), McCarthy (Josh Brolin), Gail (Rosario Dawson) and newcomer…
Continuing the trend of adapting graphic novels to the screen Dimension Films brings thier first look of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For to viewers. The main players like innocent stripper Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), moral hulk Marv (Mickey Rourke), powerful prostitute Gail (Rosario Dawson) and upstanding cop John Hartigan (Bruce Willis) have returned…
Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, known sometimes as Tarsem Singh or merely Tarsem (maybe just “T” one day), certainly has an affinity for pretty, shiny things. His third and shiniest film to date, the plodding, silly, wake-me-when-it’s-over Greek mythology pic Immortals has its fair share of impressive images. Well, more than its fair share, really. Every shot…
Man will bet on anything. You’ve got your traditional betting that’s done at casinos like poker and blackjack and others done with a local bookie on football and boxing. Some folks even like to bet on back alley dog fights. But if 13, Géla Babluani’s remake of his own film 13 Tzameti, is to be…
