A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
O carismático professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) diverte-se com a conquista de jovens e ousadas estudantes, mas nunca deixa nenhuma mulher se aproximar demais. Até o dia em que a maravilhosa Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) entra na sala de aula. A beldade de cabelos negros o cativa e ao mesmo tempo o perturba. Consuela é mais que um objeto de desejo, ela demonstra uma grande autoconfiança e uma intensidade emocional que o deixa fora de controle. O desejo de David por Consuela se torna uma obsessão capaz de transformar a sua vida. Fatal explora o poder que a beleza tem em cegar, revelar e transformar as pessoas.
O pretensioso crítico Cornelius está a escrever uma biografia sobre um violoncelista famoso e para fazer essa pesquisa, ele fica na casa do violoncelista por alguns dias. Ele não consegue uma entrevista com o homem, mas falando com todas as mulheres que moram com ele, aprende muito sobre a vida privada do músico. Cornelius então decide usar essa informação e tenta chantagear o violoncelista para que faça uma composição que ele, Cornelius, escreveu.
Mortimer Bruster (Cary Grant) acaba descobrindo um estranho hábito de suas tias: matar velhos solitários, como se fosse um ato de caridade. A confusão está prestes a começar, nesta comédia de humor-negro do diretor Frank Capra.
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
In 1934 London, Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town, finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper's new owner. Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor, becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
O crítico e professor de teatro Larry McKay (David Niven), sua esposa Kay (Doris Day), e seus quatro filhos se mudam de seu apertado apartamento em Manhattan para uma velha e grande casa de campo. Enquanto a dona de casa Kay se adapta a vida suburbana, Larry continua desfrutando do teatro e das festas de Nova York. Kay logo começa a questionar a fidelidade de Larry quando ele menciona um encontro com a estrela da Broadway Deborah Vaughn (Janis Paige). - traduzido de Daniel Bubbeo
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents
Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal after a broken relationship, Liam has slowly become disheartened with writing strictly for romantic fantasy, something evident to a sweet, but honest, journalist who reviews books, Sophie Atkinson (Amy Acker), whom he meets by chance on a plane. The two begin a tentative relationship in Sophie’s home town of Portland, Oregon, where Liam has come to find inspiration for his newest entry. Liam’s agent puts him on the spot with a long-planned reveal of Gabriel August’s true identity, but Sophie doesn’t know of his public persona. The longer Liam avoids telling her the truth, the deeper a hole he digs for himself. Will their romance survive once his true identity comes to light?
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.
A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.
In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published "The New Watchdogs" to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of the established order. Today the watchdogs are journalists, editors, and media experts who've openly become market evangelists and guardians of the social order. In a sardonic manner, "The New Watchdogs" denounces this press that, claiming to be independent, objective and pluralist, makes out it is a democratic force of opposition. With forcefulness and precision, the film puts its finger on the increasing danger of information produced by the major industrial groups of the Paris Stock Exchange and perverted into merchandise.
Carlos Boyero is one of Spanish cinema's most followed and feared figures. Controversy has hounded him since he published his first article more than forty years ago, and he has remained in the eye of the hurricane ever since. Is he the last representative of a disappearing time? Has social media put an end to the traditional influence of the critics. Taking the background and personality of this very controversial figure as its basis, El crítico / The Critic will also endeavour to reflect on the enormous changes taking place in Spain in the field of film criticism.
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
It focuses on two friends, one of whom pursues a relationship with a mysterious woman who part owns a guest house and who he has been dating online. Problems occur when guests at the isolated guest house begin to disappear and the guys discover the truth about the woman and her monstrous sisters and how they must escape from a mysterious island if they want to survive beyond dawn.
An incredibly popular stage performer unknowingly falls madly in love with the lone critic that savaged her performance in the press.
John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.