Because I Said So

A beautifully made film about how we acquire and shed identities in an individualistic culture that offers too many choices

A new Forrest Gump meets Memento, though this is worse than either. Of course it is festooned with Academy Award nominations

Excess Baggage, directed by Marco Brambilla but under the creative control of Alicia Silverstone stars the rather pudgy Miss Silverstone as Emily Hope, a poor little rich girl, always getting into trouble, who stages her own kidnapping so that her brute of a father, who is a shady businessman in Seattle who is not overeager…

A charming French romantic comedy that is also something of a throwback

To the question of why anyone would want to rewrite King Lear so as to make Goneril and Regan the heroines and poor old Lear and (to a lesser extent) Cordelia the villains, there can only be one answer: in order to make a revolutionary statement. Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres, now translated to the…

A delightful pastiche of 1950s rom-coms with a weird French accent