Sergeant York

Amazon, the IMAX film now being shown at the Museum of Natural History in New York, begins with scenes from an old black and white movie of pith-helmeted explorers fighting everything from vicious natives with poison-dart blowguns, to crocodiles to piranha. The picture is a tiny keyhole in the middle of the screen. Then up…

This silly and mindless remake of an American classic is a huge disappointment

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

My Life So Far, directed by Hugh Hudson from a memoir called Son of Adam by Sir Denis Forman, former director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is rather slight but utterly charming. Lit with the soft backglow of memory, it presents the Oedipal conflict between young Fraser Pettigrew (Robert Norman) and his eccentric…

The very funny if not quite morally serious tale of a modern day Candide.

OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?