'LX 2048': Film Review

Todd McCarthy At the time, in November 1970, it must have seemed like an ideal match, a meeting of renegade titans: Orson Welles, the long-ago boy genius of theater and films who never got a job directing in Hollywood after 1958, and Dennis Hopper, whose out-of-nowhere smash with Easy Rider in 1969 made him the boy wonder of the hippie age and ostensible leader of a new wave of counterculture movies.Just as Welles had cratered from a Hollywood-career perspective, Hopper hit the rocks with his

Some movies feature a training montage in which the star is seen flexing his muscles or honing his firearm skills in preparation for a big battle. There's no such need for that in the latest Liam Neeson vehicle.

Also Read: Open Road Films Relaunches at Cannes With Liam Neeson Thriller 'Honest Thief'Neeson stars as Tom, known to the authorities as the “In and Out Bandit” for his skill in robbing small-town banks and smoothly covering his tracks. After a successful job, Tom rents a locker at a Boston storage facility, where he’s immediately smitten with clerk Annie (Kate Walsh), a grad student.

American Pie debuted when I was in fifth grade, and like Blink-182 and South Park before it, the high school sex comedy quickly ascended to the pantheon of raunchy, outrageous and forbidden content that was immediately gobbled up and then regurgitated ad nauseum by every tween in my elementary school.

The deadly perils of music academies are a somewhat recurring horror-movie trope. Witness Black Swan, Suspiria and its overlong 2018 remake, the recent gore-fest The Perfection (better known as "that Netflix vomit movie") and even the jazzy Whiplash, which is more of a thriller than a horror flick but still features lots of psychological terror and bodily harm.

Amazon corporate synergy pays off in Evil Eye, a suspenseful thriller adapted by playwright Madhuri Shekar from her audio drama, which was a hit for the streaming giant's Audible platform of spoken-word entertainment. This new iteration fits smoothly into Welcome to the Blumhouse, a series of original genre films by culturally diverse emerging talents, in this case marking a confident feature co-directing debut for Indian American twin brothers Elan and Rajeev Dassani.

There are undoubtedly superfans out there who think otherwise, but not every film from the Pixar Studio is perfect. Some fall on the spectrum somewhere between merely adequate and fitfully delightful (like the last, the sweet but underwhelming Onward, or the okay but entirely unnecessary Toy Story 4).

Playing a 65-year-old New York high-society widow who burns through her savings and moves to Paris with her son in Azazel Jacobs'French Exit, Michelle Pfeiffer sucks the juice from each line like a Louisianan devouring a crawfish. It's a full-on diva turn — a smorgasbord of side-eye and shade, of lacerating one-liners dispatched between drags on cigarettes and slurps of martinis.

Also Read: Pixar's 'Soul' to Skip US Theaters for Christmas Day Disney+ DebutJoe Gardener (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is a middle school band teacher in Queens, New York.

Joe Utichi Editor, AwardsLineThere are moments, watching Disney-Pixar’s latest release Soul, in which the ambition of the Emeryville-based animation house astounds in ways it hasn’t quite achieved in years. Moments of abstract expression that feel entirely unique to its new film, and yet wholly in keeping with the DNA that has made Pixar the standard bearer for family animation.

Also Read: 'The War With Grandpa' Film Review: Robert De Niro Mildly Kills Time, So Audiences Can Do Likewise“I don’t like these people,” says one character after spending a bit too long in Frances’ parlor. “They’re not normal people!”He’s right, of course — they’re not normal people.

Also Read: Why #BlackLivesMatter Matters: Because of How Little Has Changed for People Like Me (Commentary)Shot in elegant black and white and mixing new footage with two decades of home movies, “Time” is also a virtuoso job of editing (by Gabriel Rhodes) that jumps back and forth over 20 years in the life of a family that has been both wrecked and brought together by incarceration.The story is focused on a Black mother and entrepreneur, Sibil Fox Richardson, who goes by Fox Rich.

Take The Wizard of Oz, add a touch of Up, a splash of Frozen and toss well with the cultural specificity of a Coco and you’ll get a reasonable facsimile of Over the Moon, a CG-animated musical fantasy that still manages to infuse sufficient charm and genuine warmth into the inescapable familiarity.

A delicious Hitchcockian thriller about the perils of maternal codependency, Aneesh Chaganty's sophomore feature Run proves wrong anyone who might've suspected the attention given to his 2018 Sundance darling Searching was due to its screens-centric formal gimmick.(The film, which opened the online Nightstream festival Thursday, will debut on Hulu November 20th.) Dueling excellent performances from a deranged Sarah Paulson and spunky newcomer Kiera Allen (in her feature debut) make it hard to

The last time Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken appeared together onscreen, they were playing a tragic game of Russian roulette in the classic 1978 film The Deer Hunter. Reunited for the first time in 42 years in the family comedy The War with Grandpa, they play dodgeball…on trampolines.

Also Read: Robert De Niro's 'The War With Grandpa' Gets Fall Release From 101 StudiosAnnoyed at being moved up to the attic, which is plagued with bats, mice, and leaks, Peter declares war on Ed.

Watch Video: Animator Glen Keane Reaches for the Stars in Trailer for Netflix's 'Over the Moon'So far, so good; Keane and his animators switch from CGI animation to more traditional hand-drawn to depict the legend of Chang’e; the opening songs turn out to be the highlight of the work by composing team Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield, and Helen Park; and the mooncakes and festival dinner are some of animation’s most mouth-watering culinary creations this side of the ham in “Ponyo” and the

In Jim Cummings' attention-grabbing 2016 short film Thunder Road, which spawned a 2018 feature by the same name, the writer-director played a grief-struck cop dealing with an angry estranged wife and his responsibilities to their young daughter. His role is nearly identical on paper in The Wolf of Snow Hollow, a bloody mystery that shares some of the previous film's uncategorizable edge but is never quite as compellingly strange.

Also Read: Regal Cinemas and Cineworld Movie Theaters to Close All US, UK Locations This WeekWe open with an interviewee who will provide some of the most damning testimony along the way – Dr.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film FestivalNikolaj proposes that they test out a theory from Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, which suggests that man’s blood-alcohol level is actually 0.5% too low, and that a small but steady intake of alcohol during work hours would help people reach peak performance.