Fistful of Dollars

The Skulls is a movie about a secret, all-male society at Yale which hardly even attempts to disguise the fact that it is based on Skull and Bones, an élite group whose membership is said to include both the George Bushes. So, too, “The Skulls” in the movie go around saying to each other “a…

The fantastical superhero makes the transition from childish wish-fulfilment to adult castration nightmare. Is this progress?

“Tyger, Tyger burning bright.” See the connection with comic-book superheroes? No, I didn’t either.

An amusing fairy tale that sometimes flirts with over-seriousness

After 50 years, the re-make of a classic western provides us with a pretty accurate gauge of the degree to which the culture has been debased since 1957

Jason Bourne stands for the exquisite conscience of liberal America which, when geostrategic necessity comes calling, can only cry out that they should have left us alone