Visiting artist Crispin Hellion Glover presents What Is It? and Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show, followed by a post-screening Q&A and book signing, Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 3, at the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre, 7 p.m. Tickets are $20. Visit www.eastmanhouse.org or www.crispinglover.com for more info.He's
If familiarity does breed contempt, then you and your significant other are likely the not-so-proud parents of a thousand tiny resentments. Yet reality always waxes as infatuation wanes, and what once seemed like an adorable quirk can turn into the vilest shortcoming ever. Most romantic comedies are too sweet on
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.
Director Zack Snyder's screen adaptation of graphic novelist Frank Miller's 300 breathes vivid, gory, campy life into the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartans, under the command of King Leonidas, fended off Xerxes' vast Persian army for three days. Upon exiting the theater, however, the clash continued
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
For most of us, Mom and Dad were once giants (literally), as infallible as they were wise. But viewing them from an adult perspective can expose some unsettling realities, some of which were probably best left buried. Filmmaker Doug Block set out to learn the truth about his parents, and
The film is based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
Grrrrr. Grrrrr. Grrrrr. Grr - oh, hey. No, I'm not mad at you. I was just brooding over irksome French filmmaker Luc Besson. He first gained stateside notice with the 1990 bullet ballet "La Femme Nikita," and since then Besson has orchestrated riveting trainwrecks like "The Professional," "The Fifth Element,"
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Leave it to filmmaker Paul Verhoeven to go and sex up the Holocaust flick. The latest from the man who forgot to budget for underthings on 1992's "Basic Instinct" and personally accepted his Worst Director Razzie for 1995's camp classic "Showgirls" is the slick "Black Book," an alternately silly and
Cinematically speaking, it's true that the cuddlier an animal is, the funnier it would look chomping on your genitals. Well, maybe not your personal privates, because that would hurt, and one's own agony is rarely funny (conversely: pain + somebody else's junk = totally funny). The point I'm trying to
A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and 22 people in the hotel whose lives were never the same.
Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
A Landscape Architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.
The trajectory of William Friedkin's career suggests that he may suffer from the paradoxical curse of early success. He directed two of the most important and influential films of the 1970s - "The French Connection," which transformed the cop movie, and "The Exorcist," which created an entirely new approach to
