Dirty Work

Detroit Rock City, written by Carl V. Dupré and directed by Adam Rifkin, is a loathsome movie about which I have nothing more to say than to marvel that anything like it could be made today. There is a lot that is wrong about the movies of our own time, but to give them their…

This might have been a striking parable of the plight of young people today, if only the film-makers could have seen a little further beyond its absurdities

The decision to make this based-on-fact saga into a thriller rather than a moral drama may have been arisen from the assumption that the audience wouldn’t know how the story comes out

Come to think of it, the capacity of Scott’s “minist’ring angel” to be beastly to her menfolk and even more beastly to other women has always been comic.

A clever but possibly inadvertent satire on the way we live, romantically, now

The influence of Quentin Tarantino continues to exert its baleful effect on lesser film-makers more than a decade after Pulp Fiction