Brief Encounter

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…

A funny but pointless movie that has already died the death at the box office. Why is that, I wonder?

This hagiography of a pornographer is a perfect summing up of the culture of Hollywood today

The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman (no relation) and written by the series’s creator, Chris Carter, gives us an example of the perfect post-modern movie, because it presents to us a non-functional conspiracy. That is to say, the conspiracy is detached from its objective, or else the objective is so obscure that it remains unclear…

The Dogme 95 movement produces another winner — a feel-good movie whose effects are not cheap. Or not very cheap.

True, her movie is pretty bad, but Brittany Murphy is my new pin-up girl