Sergeant York

When J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World had its premiere in Dublin in 1907 there were riots in the streets because the play was thought to be a vicious slander on the Irish people. Synge had seemed to suggest that it was characteristic of the Irish blarney, at least among the rural folk that…

If Freaky Friday is the Disney version of what it’s like to be an adolescent girl with a single mother, this is more like the reality.

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Yet another showcase of British acting talent turns out to be pretty good as a movie too.

People who kill people sometimes come to feel sorry for those they killed. Who knew?

Goodbye Lover, directed by Roland Joffé, is yet another inadequate attempt by Hollywood to recapture the look and feel, if not the spirit, of 1940s vintage films noirs. But as I noted in my review of L.A. Confidential, of which this is surely a stable-mate, the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. It has…