In this French movie, a young guy who acts as the gangster muscle behind his father’s real estate business yearns to escape his life into that of a concert pianist (his late mother’s profession). Working with a Chinese woman recently arrived in Paris (who speaks no French), he practices for an audition that might change [...]
Selene the vampire deathdealer and Michael the hybrid vampire/werewolf are back, this time with more backstory about how the whole vampire vs. lycan war got started in the first place like 800 years ago. That backstory is pretty silly, as is some of the vampire mythology, and honestly, could Michael be more annoying? While we’re [...]
I’m not entirely sure what to make of this film. It’s certainly unlike almost anything I’ve ever seen. Romanian cinema is apparently undergoing a “new wave” of sorts, and this film is in the vanguard of it. Mr. Lazarescu is an elderly man who starts throwing up blood one day, and his neighbors finally call [...]
Patrick is a young Irish boy who before very long becomes Patricia. His story is about more than just his attempts to get people to accept him as a her; his quest for identity and his lost family (he was abandoned on a church stoop as an infant) is played out against the backdrop of [...]
Canadian director Atom Egoyan sort of has a niche in high-concept, eroticized thrillers, and this one fits in there pretty well. Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon play two performers/best friends in 1950s Hollywood whose friendship dissolves after the death of a young actress which may or may not have been a murder in which either [...]
