Search for Ping
Air Doll is the third film I have seen in the past four years about a sex doll (following the low-budget horror movie Love Object and the considerably more sophisticated Lars and the Real Girl), and it's easily the most sublime of the three. I have...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: FANTASY/DRAMA
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Doona Bae, Arata, Itsuji Itao, ...
Beginning this week, I have decided to re-structure the "Video Views" weekly column so it no longer represents a prose catalog of new releases but instead concentrates on one or two hot topics or something interesting associated with a new release. ...
Sitting in the theater watching Him, I had an unpleasant flashback to The Neon Demon. As the movie lurched forward, growing ever more incoherent and alienating, I became convinced that the filmmakers, director Justin Tipping and his credited co-wr...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Justin Tipping
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, ...
Moody. Mournful. Slow. Languorous. Long takes. Deep colors and deeper shadows. Images that linger. All of these thoughts, observations, and impressions come to mind while watching Wong Kar-Wai’s 2000 feature, In the Mood for Love. The film w...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-02-02
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Cast:
This Labor Day weekend has provided the movie-going community with a first: three wide releases not screened for critics. Of the four films newly opening in multiplexes this weekend, only one - Traitor - provided advance screenings. The other three...
Keeping up with the Joneses (not to be confused with the better 2010 film The Joneses) is a paint-by-numbers, creatively bankrupt “comedy” emerging from a studio system that has largely forgotten what it means to be genuinely funny. Lazil...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-10-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Greg Mottola
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, ...
One subject that fascinates me relates to the boundaries of journalistic ethics. At what point does legitimate criticism and reporting cross the line into the realm of promotion and marketing? This question can be approached from any number of ...