Bullitt (1968)

Blue Streak, directed by Les Mayfield, reminded me a little of the extremely disturbing Austrian film, Funny Games, reviewed here last year, in that it leads us up the garden path of cinematic convention, then whirls around and cries: “Only kidding!” Nothing is what we thought it was. But where Michael Haneke, the sadist responsible…

The few. The proud. The homocidal and sex-obsessed. Both Anthony Swofford and Sam Mendes tell us far more about themselves than they do about the United States Marines

America may be a nation of greedy moral relativists, only waiting for a good opportunity to turn criminal, but it’s not so bad as France!

Mark Twain’s America written and directed by Stephen Low is the latest in IMAX 3-D and illustrates that basic critical principle, the law of the inverse relationship between the sophistication of a film’s technique and the quality of its content. The feeble idea on which this movie is based is that you can relate various…

Is it possible to make a movie about reality TV that’s more cheesy than reality TV? Amazingly enough, it is.

A historically dubious romp with a fun-loving FDR which nevertheless manages to get one or two big things right