Two inept brothers decide to rob a bank after the nursing home their grandfather lives in is threatened with a shut-down order from developers. Bad luck of the draw, they’ve picked the worse time to carry on their crime: a zombie epidemic just struck through the heart of London.

Having gotten some on-the-job training directing commercials and music videos, in 2008

A Welshman directed a foreign-language cop drama (see our REVIEW of Gareth Evans’s "The Raid: Redemption”) in Jakarta, so why couldn't a Brit direct one in The Philippines? "Metro Manila," half-thriller, half-drama, delivers an elegant and astute finish that will have you cheering and clapping. But the ninety minutes that precede this are so bogged down with politically-correct clichés and mournful impressionism that its storytelling potential is eviscerated.

The Venice Biennale turns seventy this year.

With the fest a month away the organizers announced the nineteen films that will be a part of the official selection. They include, "Gravity" with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, which will open the festivities on August 28. Titles like "Tom Farm" by Xavier Dolan, "Ana Arabia" by Amos Gitai, "Child of God" by James Franco

You've probably never heard of her but she is an essential part of cinema's history. Actress Bernadette Lafont died yesterday at the age of 74 after a long and fruitful career in the movies and the theater--all told, she appeared in 120 films and twenty-one plays.

Lafont, an icon of the French New Wave movement and of feminism, distinguished herself through memorable roles such as

Ryan Coogler, who directed “Fruitvale Station” (REVIEW) and Michael B. [...]

A druglord who is a part of a wider network gets arrested by the police. He does everything to save his own skin, cooperating with the police and snitching on more powerful individuals in the network, but can he be trusted? Police captain Zhang (Sun Honglei) partners with Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) after the latter is arrested. To avoid the death penalty, Choi agrees to reveal information about his partners' cocaine ring. Zhang grows

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the release of the film "Free Willy," and with the support of the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation, and social media partners The Humane Society of the United States Hollywood Outreach Program and Heal the Bay, filmmaker Theresa Demarest will bring Keiko, the world-famous orca, back to Hollywood for a world premiere screening of "Keiko, the untold story of the star of Free Willy"