High Noon

Is it possible for a man to have friends without regressing to boyhood? Not according to this unfunny comedy

A tedious, nasty and disgusting bit of self-indulgence, and no Choke

“Unclog any tubes today?” asks waspish wife Phyllis (Julie Christie) of her husband, Lucky Mann (Nick Nolte), a philandering plumber and handyman in Alan Rudolph’s Afterglow. “Pipes. The word is pipes,” he insists, though we have just been watching him wielding his tool in such a suggestive way (“Turn me on” he says to a…

There would hardly be any reason to notice Me, Myself and Irene, the latest in the series of gross-out comedies from Peter and Bobby Farrelly that includes Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary, if it did not provide yet another example of the way in which vulgar Freudianism has become the religion…

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

Serious scientific history provides a great excuse for watching sado-masochistic sex