Philadelphia Story, The

An absorbing if not-very-happy study of happiness — and unhappiness — among the English middle classes

A deeply unfunny movie, apparently, to nobody but me.

24 7: Twenty Four Seven, directed by Shane Meadows, is a strange sort of 90s version of the old-fashioned boxing flick where the tough street kid fights his way out of poverty and hardship to success (even though it is often a problematical kind of success) by learning courage and self-discipline in the ring. The…

A portrait of modern sanctity which — very oddly, in my view — asks not to be taken too seriously

A girl who pretends to be deaf and a real bad dad don’t end up adding very much of interest to a routine high school melodrama

Fallen, written by Nicholas Kazan and directed by Gregory Hoblit from the novel by Dawn Steele is an idiotic fantasy about a Biblical demon called Azazel who inhabits the body of a murderer named Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). When Reese is executed for his crimes, the spirit of Azazel transmigrates into the bodies of various…