All articles by David Kempler

Minor league play by Tennessee Williams maintains its minor league status in this pleasant but unremarkable film adaptation.

Belgian filmmakers take stars from their short animated films to full-length feature but prove that sometimes people should remain within their comfort zone.

Set in 1962, this solid but over-directed adaptation follows a gay, fiftyish college professor who is in mourning for the untimely death of his younger lover.

Robert De Niro takes pap and makes it serviceable with the help of other talented actors in this otherwise very ordinary tale.

Robin Williams and John Travolta star in a supposed comedy that quite possibly may be the Dog of the Year.

An African-American teen has his life turned around in unlikely circumstances and, as run-of-the-mill as it may sound, it really works.

Gumshoe is hot on the trail of a missing person in this homage to Film Noir that works less hard than a good looking dame.

Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson, in his first English-language film, lays an egg of mammoth proportions.

It’s wartime in China, 1,700 years ago, and John Woo, after a so-so start, delivers a near epic by the time the final arrow is launched.

This documentary-style view of a frantic attempt to get someone into rehab before he is sent to jail needs fixing.