Letters from Iwo Jima

Another unsuccessful attempt at the movie that tried to identify Death with Fate and got tangled up in its own metaphysics. But several accidental demises are very cool.

A ridiculous bit of wish-fulfilment nevertheless suggests that family values may no longer be considered box-office poison.

A movie about forgiveness is itself a bit hard to forgive

The thesis of Elizabeth, written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur, is very simple— like the people that the thesis is ultimately about. These are the credulous peasants of the middle ages who are supposed to have worshiped the Virgin Mary. By the 16th century, the Catholic Church as headed by Sir John…

Another political documentary conceived of not as investigation but as entertainment for those who already know all they care to know of its subject — except that it forgets to entertain

An unforgettable series of interviews with the first men — and perhaps the last — ever to set foot on another world