'Radium Girls': Film Review

“We are at war,” French president François Hollande declared in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan terrorist attacks of 2015, rallying his country in a battle cry against an enemy that remained hidden in the shadows of everyday life.

David Wojnarowicz, a key figure of the 1980s art movement that flowered in the pavement cracks of New York's pre-gentrified East Village, died of AIDS in 1992 at age 37. But Chris McKim's defiantly alive collage documentary, Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker, is so charged with the words and images of the multimedia artist it could almost be considered self-portraiture, often recalling Jonathan Caouette's remarkable docu-narrative hybrid Tarnation.

In Fatman, the latest film by brothers Ian and Eshom Nelms, Santa Claus is a gruff, defeated man with a drinking problem. Persecuted by those he wants to bring joy to, he at one point suffers a wound in his side, Jesus-style.

Also Read: 'Fatman,' With Mel Gibson as Santa Claus, Acquired by Saban FilmsTimes are hard for Santa: With so many kids misbehaving, he is delivering fewer parents, which, in turn, cuts into the subsidy he gets from the U.S. government.

Watch Video: Gary Oldman Charms His Way Through 1930s Hollywood in David Fincher's 'Mank' TrailerBut starry-eyed fans of American cinema’s golden age who shunned “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” because they didn’t want to know about the sex lives of their favorite leading men and ladies, and who avoided “Trumbo” because they didn’t want to be reminded that the studios aided and abetted the Blacklist, will have to deal with the Finchers’ evocation of the deeply reactionary politics

You have to say one thing about the hapless characters in the new horror film directed by Alastair Orr (House on Willow Street, Indigenous): They at least know exactly what kind of movie they're in. Turning homicidally on each other in the woods with bombs attached to their chests, they manage to throw in joking references to the Saw movies and John Wick, among other things.

The lambs certainly aren't silent in the latest horror film from Bryan Bertino (The Strangers, The Monster). Depicting the fateful reunion that occurs when two adult siblings return home to their family farm on the occasion of the imminent death of their father, The Dark and the Wicked offers supremely atmospheric thrills that will hauntingly resonate with anyone who's ever been faced with a similar situation.

A clench-jawed movie about a decent guy who's been forced to infiltrate a gang, then maneuvered into an even deadlier masquerade, Andrea Di Stefano's The Informer is a solid crime flick whose heart rate never rises to a point commensurate with the many layers of danger its eponymous protagonist faces.

With Halloween and Friday the 13th falling just weeks apart this year, horror fans may feel the pang of an epically missed opportunity as Hollywood’s exhibition options remain constrained by reduced capacity in many theaters and still-shuttered screens in some major markets.

A 30-year-old “salaryman” — the Japanese equivalent of an office employee — is getting bored with his two girlfriends at work when a dangerous, unpredictable femme fatale overturns his life. Originally produced by Japan’s Nagoya TV as a 10-part series, this comic book adaptation directed by acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada was edited down to a mere 233 minutes for its theatrical release in Japan in October.

Reza Dormishian is one of the most original directors in Iranian cinema, and No Choice (Majboorim) is another example of his ability to enthrall with hard-hitting social critique.

Christmas movie that can charm adults into looking past its flaws while turning delighted children into lifelong fans.On the heels of his charming ensemble comedy “Almost Christmas,” writer-director David E. Talbert fearlessly marries whimsy and steampunk, sentimentality and science fiction, with big musical numbers composed by Philip Lawrence, Davy Nathan and Michael Diskint, plus one from John Legend (who executive produced the film).

Sony's trailer for The Craft: Legacymakes the film look less like a sequel than an updated remake of the teen fantasy that drove legions of us to worship at the dark altar of demonic sorceress Fairuza Balk.

If you take a look at Forbes’ annual list of the highest paid athletes in the world, at least two or three of the top five spots are usually occupied by soccer players — and usually the same ones: Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar.

There's a fertile history of technology as a conduit for evil in horror, notably in films like Poltergeist and The Ring. Those predecessors are among the more obvious influences of writer-director Jacob Chase's gripping family-in-peril chiller, Come Play, expanded with great assurance in both craft and storytelling from his imaginative 5-minute short, Larry.

A heartfelt, handsomely made but unconvincing tonal mash-up, Thomas Bezucha's Let Him Go begins as a family drama embodying the no-nonsense smarts of its early-'60s heartland setting before veering into wild Gothic menace and ill-advised vigilantism.

Another in a string of restorations that in recent years have benefitted fans of wuxia legend King Hu, Raining in the Mountain is one of two pictures the late Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based auteur (most famous for Come Drink with Me and the Cannes favorite A Touch of Zen) made in South Korea. Considerably shorter and more direct than the other Korean project (Legend of the Mountain, which got its first U.S.

It was 1925, but it could have been any number of years before The Great Depression. The U.S.