“Factory Girl” imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s “it girl” Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention her […]
“The Dead Girl,” the new film from acclaimed writer/director Karen Moncrieff (”Blue Car”), is a quintet of stories about seemingly unrelated people whose lives converge around the murder of a young woman.
“The Stranger” is about the woman (Toni Collette) who finds the body. The publicity generated by the discovery creates an opening for her to […]
From the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson (”La Femme Nikita,” “The Fifth Element”), comes a larger-than-life, family adventure about a boy who, after his grandfather disappears, sets out to save his family home from emerging real estate developers. Arthur learns that he must follow his grandfather’s ancient clues to a vast treasure – […]
Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, “The Painted Veil” is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love […]
The greatest underdog story of our time is back for one final round of the Academy Award-winning “Rocky” franchise, former heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa steps out of retirement and back into the ring, pitting himself against a new rival in a dramatically different era. After a virtual boxing match declares Rocky Balboa the victor over […]
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel, and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project?
Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, “Drawing Restraint 9.” The documentary “Matthew Barney: No Restraint” journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator […]
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, “Breaking and Entering” follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King’s Cross. When a landscape architect’s (Jude Law) state of the art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him […]
It’s Christmas Eve and five kids have just been snowed in at the airport — and there isn’t a parent in sight. Unaccompanied Minors follows awkward Spencer (Dyllan Christopher), rich-girl Grace (Gina Mantegna), tomboy Donna (Quinn Shephard), geeky Charlie (Tyler James Williams) and bashful Beef (Brett Kelly) as they try to outwit a disgruntled airport […]
In “Screamers,” Garapedian traces the history of modern-day genocide - and genocide denial – from the fertile “Holy Mountains” of Anatolia to the current atrocities in Darfur. The documentary is as shattering as it is powerful, which includes live performance footage and interviews with System of a Down, the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning rock band, all […]
“National Lampoon’s Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj” is the sequel to the successful 2002 release, “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder.” Taj (Kal Penn), Van Wilder’s assistant in the first film, heads out on his own and heads to England’s prestigious Camden University to further his studies. Along the way, he adopts a group of misfits […]