Fistful of Dollars

The first question to be asked about the shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, directed from Alfred Hitchcock’s original shooting script by Gus Van Sant, is why? What is the point? Couldn’t they just have got Ted Turner to “colorize” the great man’s greatest masterpiece? Why bother to hire a whole new cast and crew to go…

An affecting exploration into a social problem which can only be made worse by being regarded as a social problem

A very funny if very unreliable version of the Abscam scandal of 1980 with a distinctive, David O. Russell touch

This is the abstract field.

Woody Allen’s decline into self-parody accelerates

A film critic called upon to review a James Bond movie feels a bit like a restaurant critic who is asked to review McDonald’s. The World is Not Enough, directed by Michael Apted, is like most of its 18 predecessors pure McEntertainment. Anyone who has been to the other Bond films will know exactly what…