This film, an erotic thriller about a housewife (Diane Lane) putting the contents of her lingerie drawer to use with a man who’s not her husband, is a lot of this: her, draped around a Frenchman, both of them nude and tangled in 500-thread-count linens. ...
For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2017. We’ve asked our contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions — those personal lists will be shared in the coming days — and, after tallying...
Films: Top of the flops ; Rik and Ade hit rock bottomFILMS by GRAHAM YOUNG
American Horror Story, Americanhorroranthologytelevisionseries created by producersRyan Murphyand Brad Falchuk for the FX network. The first season premiered in 2011, mixing gore and supernatural scares with the worst impulses of human behavior, historic true crime, elements of Americanmoral panics, an...
Overall,The Prosecutor is a solid package that allows Donnie Yen to beat people up and charm people with his acting skills. I’d love to see moreProsecutormovies and based on its success in China and the worldwide critical praise we might get more of them. ...
characters and emotion. "I love films that leave something indelible, either a mood or an image or a line of dialogue," he said. "If several days later they can still pop up in your mind, and you even talk about them with your friends, then the movie is a successful one," he adde...
first 16 years of his career, with three shorts, and then two feature films, ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ and ‘The Long Day Closes’ (1992), finding different, personal and poetic ways of making sense of his recollections of his childhood in a post-war, working-class Liverpool home....
Actor Paul Gleason, well-known for a similar curmudgeonly role in 1985’s The Breakfast Club, bears much of the brunt. As he callously shouts at police officer Powell (Reginald VelJohnson), he also frets at the mayor’s reaction to the handling of the situation with repeated ‘the mayor ...
HAVEABABY is a documentary that follows couples struggling with infertility and a controversial IVF contest that offers them hope. by Amanda Micheli and 478 backers Rooftop Alum Amanda Micheli's new project HAVEABABY explores the emotional, financial, and physical challenges of infertility Project...
a hermit’s lifestyle that draws on Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian traditions – either for a brief respite from modern life, or for the long haul – they focus on studying religion, meditation and connecting with nature, seeking meaning in what they describe as an 'ancient way of life'."...