Now available on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, the South African film is a mostly unflinching look at the enormous and devastating social consequences the disease still exerts in a part of the world where nearly 12 percent of the population has it. The story, while harrowing, sidesteps becoming advocacy cinema by casting itself in a […]
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
It’s your best bet to glimpse the off-limits, 1,300-feet Chauvet caves in Southern France, which Herzog explores with a small group of scientists, primarily to witness its walls’ drawings, more than twice as old as any painting in existence. As Herzog calls it, it’s “one of the greatest discoveries in the history of human culture,” […]
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
It’s your best bet to glimpse the off-limits, 1,300-feet Chauvet caves in Southern France, which Herzog explores with a small group of scientists, primarily to witness its walls’ drawings, more than twice as old as any painting in existence. As Herzog calls it, it’s “one of the greatest discoveries in the history of human culture,” […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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Water for Elephants
Francis Lawrence is a talented director … of big-budget genre fare like “I Am Legend” and “Constantine.” But two-hour romantic dramas set in the world of a traveling circus? Three-ring boredom, ladies and gentlemen, no matter how pretty — how utterly golden-hued — the proceedings look. Christoph Waltz, the most deserving Oscar winner for his […]
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Water for Elephants
Francis Lawrence is a talented director … of big-budget genre fare like “I Am Legend” and “Constantine.” But two-hour romantic dramas set in the world of a traveling circus? Three-ring boredom, ladies and gentlemen, no matter how pretty — how utterly golden-hued — the proceedings look. Christoph Waltz, the most deserving Oscar winner for his […]
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Water for Elephants
Francis Lawrence is a talented director … of big-budget genre fare like “I Am Legend” and “Constantine.” But two-hour romantic dramas set in the world of a traveling circus? Three-ring boredom, ladies and gentlemen, no matter how pretty — how utterly golden-hued — the proceedings look. Christoph Waltz, the most deserving Oscar winner for his […]
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Maniac Cop
He knows, judging from “the size of those hematomas” on one victim’s neck. He’s right: It is the work of a cop … a “Maniac Cop.” Astounding coincidence: That’s the title of a 1988 cult gem from director William Lustig (“Relentless”) and writer Larry Cohen (“Cellular”) that plays like exploitation gangbusters with each viewing, and […]