Primetime
By Jeffery Berg
A luridly entertaining picture as well as an uneasy experience..
It features a winning and touching comic performance by Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel).
Sadie Frost’s bubbly documentary charts how a skinny, working-class Cockney teenager became the first top model in the UK, then blew up as the symbol of a worldwide youthquake.
If the film fails, it is certainly not because concrete is a bland subject.
Alex Gibney’s never less than riveting account of the knife attack on Salman Rushdie.
Aardman Animations revisits its beloved mischievous ewe in a Halloween adventure that delightfully skews the Frankenstein formula for the G-rated demographic.
Enjoyable as this action adventure may be, it might be worth revisiting its most direct inspirations so as not to forget the real gold.
The Musical is at its best when Mateo Nossa’s lively score takes on a macabre, grandiose Bernard Herrmann–esque Taxi Driver lavishness.
Filmmaker Maya Annik Bedward unearths the history behind one of horror cinema’s favorite creatures and sets the record straight.
Director Sam Green’s decade-long project treks the globe as he meets with six of the oldest living individuals, all of whom are women.