Springfield Rifle

Bean—without the Mr. usually appended to his name in the series of delightful comedy shorts featuring the character created by Rowan Atkinson—has now been stretched out to feature length in a version directed by Mel Smith, Atkinson’s former colleague on the BBC’s hit satirical revue of the early ’80s, “Not the Nine O’Clock News.” He…

A frankly mendacious and distorted account of the life and innovations of the founder of Facebook — who may or may not care

A movie about story-telling and its power for good and evil — especially over the story-tellers themselves. Not to be missed!

Almost everyone can enjoy a really dumb movie once in a while, but it would seem to be a minimum requirement that it at least be funny.

A great actors’ movie but, to that extent, not so great as a movie — From The American Spectator

Once upon a time, Hollywood’s stock-in-trade was the “wom-jeop” movie, designed to appeal to the chivalrous instincts of the boys and young men for whom it was intended by placing an attractive woman in jeopardy and then supplying a handsome young hero with whom the youths could identify themselves to rescue her. Its post-feminist equivalent…