Searchers, The

A feminist fairy-tale can only succeed, one suspects, to the extent that it marginalizes its feminism.

The movies of the Alien series have always had as subtext the feminist view of abortion, but never more so than the latest, called Alien Resurrection, which comes to us from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Jeunet was co-director of the very weird French films Delicatessen and City of Lost Children, and this looks a lot like both…

The movies can’t help themselves: they chase the chimera of the “real man” within the great man as great men themselves once chased military glory

Follow your bliss, middle-aged America! Quit your job, speak your mind, buy that muscle car you’ve always wanted. Start smoking pot again. Buff up and start an affair with a teenage girl. You may die for it, but you will die happy. Where have we heard this before? Periodically, the popular culture becomes receptive to…

A lovely film from the author of Gomorrah that explores, with humor but little hope, the God-shaped hole in the life of our culture

A throwback to the days when Hollywood went in for moralism, this movie is marred by its treatment of mental illness