Sergeant York

Jackie Chan’s First Strike, directed by Stanley Tong, is another example of the only kind of action film I seem to get any enjoyment out of anymore. Most of them are so artificial and unbelievable: special effects overwhelming the human element. But the remarkable Jackie Chan does action at the human level. This he gets…

A slight but charming Indian take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

A movie more sympathetic than you would expect towards religious experience, but not really very much interested in it

A bit of magical realism that is too heavy on the magic and too light on the realism

I can’t say much about Evita by Alan Parker, based on the stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, because I just don’t like the music very much. I admit that Mr Lloyd Webber has written some swell tunes in Cats and Phantom of the Opera, but most of his music seems to…

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