Springfield Rifle

Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent

Alas for Haiti! Its rulers are crooks and thugs, its religion is voodoo and its heroes are communists

A bit of feminist, anti-corporatist, anti-religious hysteria piggy-backing on Hollywood’s enthusiasm for serial killers

Maybe Ali McGraw couldn’t have managed it, but one would have liked to see the beautiful and talented Leelee Sobieski given a chance to move an audience without having to die. Alas, it was not to be. Here On Earth, written by Michael Seitzman and directed by Mark Piznarski, is a remake of Love Story…

Like Waiting for Guffman, which Christopher Guest directed and starred in four years ago, his new movie, Best in Show is painfully funny. Truly funny and truly painful. And very much in the same way too—in the way, that is, that toe-curling embarrassment is painful if you are involved in it and funny if you…

Always worth watching, the Coen Brothers tell us, as they have done so often in the past, that truth is elusive and life is absurd. But this is old news.