Movie Reviews

Nyambi handles the hilarious breakout role of 'Samuel,' a Senegalese waiter working in a diner to whom dieting is a foreign concept.

In most coming-of-age sagas, the empathetic underdog's making his way out of the ghetto would herald a proverbial 'happily ever after' ending. But in the more nuanced and multilayered world of Changing the Game, entre to the Ivy League merely sig

Top Ten DVD List for May 29th

Even Back to the Future III (1990) doubled-down on the dubious cinematic device when it had Michael J. Fox teleported back to the Wild, Wild West instead of to the Fifties like the earlier installments. Industry insiders use the Happy Days-inspired

While Jeff sneaks off to make predatory moves on Liz, Darius and Arnau conspire to corner the elusive and exceedingly paranoid recluse in question, Kenneth.

Directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd (King's Ransom), this music-driven, hip-hop opera stars Dietrick Haddon as Andre 'Dre' Stephens, a booty and bling-obsessed pop icon who has turned his back on the Lord. We witness his misbehavior firsthand when the sh

This is the third in a series of Cannes Film Festival Reports by Annette Insdorf, who has been on location. Professor Insdorf is our correspondent at this year's Cannes Film Festival

Turns out Bud was not only Bipolar, but suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Depression and Asperger's Syndrome. On the advice of his doctors, he put his lifelong dreams on hold to enter a therapeutic community for extended treatment.

Dark Horse may be too dark for its own good, when lightening up might have been a better way to go. As Abe's elaborately murky fantasies begin to take over

Apartment 143 (R for profanity and terror) Found-footage horror flick about a team of parapsychologists' investigation of strange phenomena occurring inside of a haunted house. Starring Francesc Garrido, Fiona Glascott and Rick Gonzalez.

It seems that Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) has been snuffed by menacing time traveler Boris back in 1969 just a little while ago, or something like that.

Jimmy was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.

Celebrities and dignitaries mingled at the feast that followed in the 'Agora' tent, a huge temporary construction behind the Palais. Among them was Alec Baldwin, in Cannes for the first time,

Performing as a raven in a local theater production on the island, but subsequently demoted to a blue jay, Suzy is a likewise tween loner enduring an unhappy family life in a vertically challenged lighthouse.

The diva's diehard fans might be disappointed that she doesn't get to sing here, unless whispering a few bars of 'Sentimental Journey' counts.

Movie Critic Kam Williams gives the Red Tails DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 3 stars.

Other than being derailed by a temporary setback during The Depression, the festival's stature grew steadily over the ensuing years.

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A rude awakening awaits Aladeen in New York City where he is kidnapped by a hit man (John C. Reilly) hired by his uncle and replaced by an impersonator before he has a chance to deliver an address to the United Nations.

Apart from being incredibly uninteresting, none of the characters actually have a sound reason for being at The Marigold. Evelyn has never worked but, at the age of 77, flies to India in the hope of finding a job in a call center.