Poor Ariel. He's talking to hotties in a late-night dance club in Valparaíso, Chile, when an earthquake hits, crushing a hostess before he even can get her number.
Worse, a falling shelf severs his hand, which flips across the floor. Bu...
"Peeples" is straight-up sitcom, which is not necessarily a bad thing. First of all, it's funny, at least sometimes; second, it contains an interesting stealth message about aspiration and identity, as do many family or relationship sitc...
"Disconnect" is "Crash" for the age of social media. Unfortunately, the "Crash" I mean is the tiresome 2005 all-star ensemble about racial interconnectedness in Los Angeles that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, not the 1996 David ...
In "The Wet Parade," a rather amazing and almost forgotten MGM movie released in 1932 but set years earlier, cynical Neil Hamilton scoffs at earnest Robert Young's interest in enlisting in the fight that would become known as World War I...
Original and extraordinary, writer-director Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color" may represent a milestone in true independent cinema, or at least a stepping stone between the smart microbudget work signified by its star, Amy Seimetz, and th...
Yes, it would be easy to spoof or dismiss "To the Wonder." Terrence Malick's new film eliminates the dinosaurs, the tough Texas kids and Jessica Chastain -- the things many viewers most enjoyed in the director's previous film, "The Tree ...
The 16th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival begins this year on Halloween.
Appropriately, then, the organization is getting a jump on the holiday Tuesday night (April 30) with a horror-themed double feature that brings two much-anticipat...
"The Vampire Lovers" (1970) is notorious as the feature that introduced nudity and overt, even sapphic eroticism into the Gothic horror tradition of Britain's Hammer Films. But on repeat viewings, what's remarkable about "The Vampire Lov...
When the Found Footage Festival returns to Memphis on Monday (April 15), it will introduce moviegoers to a truly original performer, Frank Pacholski, star of a 1999 program that apparently shocked or at least dumbfounded even the seen-it...
The rapid editing, wide-angle compositions, garish colors, mirrored images, slice-and-dice chronology and electronic music that director Danny Boyle uses for his shiny new art-heist hypnosis thriller, "Trance," are signatures of his styl...
