Big Sleep, The

Another movie celebration of media narcissism, and an evocation of pathos for the long recessional of the newspaper business’s terminal decline

Mr Nice Guy, directed by Samo Hung, stars Jackie Chan as a TV cook who accidentally gets mixed up in gang activity in Melbourne, Australia. His now deceased father was supposed to have been a policeman and best friends with a man named Baggio (Barry Otto). Dad had made Baggio promise to ensure that Jackie…

Putting together the pieces of the puzzle is the only pleasure to be had from this movie, but it is pleasure enough for some people.

Firestorm is the kind of picture which it would be nice to be able to encourage with a sympathetic review. It is the story of heroic men—in this case the legendary “smoke jumpers” who parachute into forest fires to help put them out—fighting against both nature and bad guys and prevailing against both. Nor is…

This well-made French film by Cédric Kahn re-examines the relationship between civilization and savagery. Again.

The idea behind this movie is mistaken, I think, but its execution makes it very watchable