Shop Around the Corner, The

Hav Plenty by Christopher Cherot is a young man’s film about love and success in the black middle class and as such, I suppose, is to be applauded merely for existing. At least it is a welcome break from those tiresome boyz in the hood and other forms of playing up to black stereotypes. But…

A fresh and amusing take on the career of a real-life gay con-man which suffers from an all-too typical lack of moral focus

A movie more notable for its ingenuity in adapting the conventions of film noir to a high school setting than for any more substantial merits

A movie to promote the self-conceit of ageing hippies left behind by "history"

A coming of age story set in an immigrant subculture that’s worth seeing mainly for the acting

The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway is a typical Greenaway blend of the bizarre, the disgusting and the boring. Especially the boring. You wouldn’t think it, would you? That a man could concentrate so exclusively on weird sexual fetishes (in this case, a woman’s desire to have her body written on — and then to…