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A charming fable of an environmentally friendly machine which proves to be the redeemer of mankind. Where have I heard something like this before?

Hotel de Love by Craig Rosenberg is, like Cosi, a fresh and amusing Australian film that puts Hollywood schlock like Fools Rush In to shame. It tells the story of twin brothers, Rick (Aden Young, who also plays Nick in Cosi) and Stephen (Simon Bossell) who fall in love with the same girl, Melissa (Saffron…

Varsity Blues, directed by Brian (Good Burger) Robbins, is yet another in the seemingly endless procession of dumb Hollywood movies designed to attack the masculine virtues and what used to be thought of as the laudable American quality of the will to win. Like Affliction and The Thin Red Line in recent weeks, it seems to…

A lovely film about an American con-man and one of his dupes who find a spooky kind of redemption in each other

This is the best version of J.M. Barrie’s classic that there has ever been on film, and maybe in any medium

An unexpectedly amusing variation on an old French theme