Fistful of Dollars

Dirty Work, directed by Bob Saget, is utterly without redeeming features: boring, stupid and unfunny. Even my two sub-teen boys thought it was bad, and worse than that movies like this do not get. Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice

Yet another example of gore, black humor and special effects that only has contempt for the non-special but desirable effect of explaining what is going on

A bleak portrait of what remains of love and romance in a world without hope and without a future

Nerds continue their reign as Hollywood’s favorite heroes, though in real life they are rarely so clever as we want to believe they are

When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…