Bullitt (1968)

The Perfect Storm, though exciting as spectacle is disappointing as drama. Its director, Wolfgang Petersen here favors rather the style of Air Force One, his best known film, than Das Boot, his second best-known. Perhaps it was only the relatively small budget of the latter film which forced him to pay the attention he does…

As in Waiting for Guffman and Best In Show, Christopher Guest takes a satirical sledge-hammer to some pretty small nuts, but his film is also, and once again, uproariously funny

Who, I wonder, is the intended audience for movies like Thirteen Days? Of course we know who it is that makes them. Kevin Costner, in spite of a string of self-indulgent flops is still a big enough star to be allowed to indulge himself a bit further. And of course when two or three are…

Don’t go to this movie if you are expecting a barrel— or even a small pitcher — of laughs.

A well-made and emotionally satisfying study in elemental human passions that is splendidly down-to-earth — in more ways than one

Kenneth Branagh’s new film of Love’s Labour’s Lost has very little to do with the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Branagh’s marketability (such as it is) has always been pretty closely tied to that of the 16th century playwright, but here he is shamelessly using the Shakespeare brand name simply in order…