Springfield Rifle

Conceptual art comes to the movies, bringing with it a newish sort of excuse for watching pornography

The opening of Mean Girls this week seems an appropriate occasion to take a look at some really mean girls

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the creative force behind A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles), has always been a quirky director. In fact, “quirky” is putting it mildly. His early films, Delicatessen (1991) and City of Lost Children (1995) often seem like illustrations for the definition of “post-modern” proposed by Moe Sislak of “The Simpsons,”…

Conspiracy Theory, written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Richard Donner, attempts to do for lunatics what movies like The Shawshank Redemption tried to do for convicts—that is to sanitize them and make them lovable victims of government and society instead of dangerous social malcontents. Charming, blue-eyed Mel Gibson plays Jerry, a middle aged New…

Don’t go to this movie if you are expecting a barrel— or even a small pitcher — of laughs.

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