Review: “Hellbenders”
Writer-director JT Petty mines a few good laughs from the promising premise of "Hellbenders," an aggressively foul-mouthed horror-comedy about exorcists forced to keep themselves in a constant state…
Writer-director JT Petty mines a few good laughs from the promising premise of "Hellbenders," an aggressively foul-mouthed horror-comedy about exorcists forced to keep themselves in a constant state…
Popular Indian thesp Sridevi returns to the screen after a 15-year hiatus with "English Vinglish," a sprightly star vehicle that finds her perfectly cast as an attractive yet old-fashioned homebody…
Helmer Dan Bradley's long-delayed remake of John Milius' 1984 kids-vs.-Commies adventure delivers enough thrilling action sequences and rock-'em, sock-'em fantasy-fulfillment to amp its B.O…
Cliches and contrivances abound in "Unconditional," a faith-based drama about redemption and renewal that is blessed with the saving graces of persuasive performances, handsome production values and…
Not so much a traditional sequel as a hallucinogenic riff on an entire franchise, "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" plays like the fevered fantasy of a die-hard genre fan who requires only the…
Someday, someone will make a movie in which the protagonist seizes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and doesn't blow it off to coach and/or root for younger people at an inconveniently timed…
Seventeen years after he scored at Sundance with "The Brothers McMullen," prolific multihyphenate Edward Burns returns to family business with "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas," an unpretentiously…
The latest and arguably least coherent entry in the long-running series starring Milla Jovovich as a straight-shooting, ass-kicking heroine who battles zombies inadvertently spawned by a…
A labor-of-love biodoc that nonetheless offers a warts-and-all evaluation of its subject, "Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp" intrigues and illuminates.
An initially intriguing but unduly protracted drama by Indian writer-director Girish Kasaravalli.