Don't Bother
[See “Entry from August 6, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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True, it’s not as bad as American Beauty, Sam Mendes’s earlier film, but it’s still quite bad enough.
More super-heroes arrive to poison your children’s imaginations — but at least Pixar knows how to make them fun
Another unsuccessful attempt at the movie that tried to identify Death with Fate and got tangled up in its own metaphysics. But several accidental demises are very cool.
Dirty Work, directed by Bob Saget, is utterly without redeeming features: boring, stupid and unfunny. Even my two sub-teen boys thought it was bad, and worse than that movies like this do not get. Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe
The first question to be asked about the shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, directed from Alfred Hitchcock’s original shooting script by Gus Van Sant, is why? What is the point? Couldn’t they just have got Ted Turner to “colorize” the great man’s greatest masterpiece? Why bother to hire a whole new cast and crew to go…
