Movies
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
In 2010, Conan OBrien had a very nice career for Jay Leno to poop on. But, as the title of this doc (tracking OBriens breakneck, 44-gig “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television” tour) indicates, he didnt (or, more tellingly, couldnt) let a little thing like cancellation stop him.
Blood Beach
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS On this beach, the danger isnt in the waterits under the sand! John (Enter the Dragon) Saxon and Burt (Rocky) Young headline this sanguine summertime shocker, so wade in!
Bang Bang Club, The
The Bang Bang Club tells the true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists (none of whom were likely as pretty as stars Ryan Phillippe and Malin Ackerman) who documented the violence and chaos of the dying days of apartheid and the incredible emotional toll it took on them.
Andy Warhol’s Dracula
In this Grand-Guignol reimagining, a shortage of Romanian virgins drives Dracula (Udo Kier!) to Italy, where he assumes (wrongly) that Catholicism will have kept aristocratic women from sleeping with their shirtless manservants. Watch for great neorealist director Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thief) as a faded aristocrat and Roman Polanski as
Apocalypse Now Redux
CORNU-COPPALA Im going 75 clicks above the Do Lung Bridge. Thats Cambodia, Captain. Thats classified.
Win Win
Director McCarthys (The Station Agent, The Visitor) latest film, about a financially (and ethically) struggling lawyer and high school wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti), tells its tale with the gritty texture and emotional heft of life as it’s lived, not contoured by Hollywood This movie wins you over, head and heart,
Water For Elephants
Twilight star Robert Pattinson runs away and joins the circus, where he meets beautiful acrobat Reese Witherspoon and sadistic ringmaster Christopher Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) in screenwriter Richard LaGraveneses (The Fisher King) adaptation of the bestselling novel. A beautifully crafted film. (Exclaim)
True Legend
Directed by legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), this tale of a 19th-century warrior who must battle his jealous, powerful brother to save his family gets pretty nutty, but the fighting is spectacular. (Jay Stone) Co-starring Michelle Yeoh and the late David Carradine. Woo-Pings
True Legend
Directed by legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), this tale of a 19th-century warrior who must battle his jealous, powerful brother to save his family gets pretty nutty, but the fighting is spectacular. (Jay Stone) Co-starring Michelle Yeoh and the late David Carradine. Woo-Pings
Troll Hunter, The
In this frosty, Scandinavian take on the Blair-Witch-style mockumentary, a group of students sets out to investigate the mysterious deaths of bears in the Norse countryside and stumbles upon, well, you read the title, right? Enormously entertaining. (Variety) English subtitles.