It Happened One Night

Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld from the comic book by Lowell Cunningham, is offered as a justification for weird sort of benign paranoia. The government, we are asked to believe, really knows all about the alien presence in our midst (that much is familiar) but they are keeping the knowledge of it from…

Shanghai Noon, directed by Tom Dey from a script by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, is a spoof- Western in the manner of Blazing Saddles but with two main differences from Mel Brooks’s classic. One is that it is 26 years further away from the sort of conventions of the genre that Blazing Saddles was…

A poor evocation of the Cold War, this movie redeems itself with a portrayal of men doing their best to cope with a colossal military screw-up.

A Belgian film about a hit man with Alzheimer’s disease promises a bit more than it is able to deliver

A Brazilian revenge-drama is too portentous and fraught with religious significance for all but the most militant of atheists to appreciate

Yet more corruption in the LAPD makes you wonder if there are criminals in Los Angeles who aren’t wearing a badge