When Harry Met Sally
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The Story of Us by Rob Reiner attempts to do for marital difficulty what his earlier film, When Harry Met Sally does for marital concord. Once again he uses the quasi- documentary technique, which is all mixed up with flashbacks of the history of a particular relationship. But you can’t help noticing that there is…
Does the USA need to train Latin American torturers? After all, Latin Americans have been torturing each other for a long time without any help from us
An interesting and intelligent take on the social and cultural dislocations caused by the Czech Republic’s assimilation into the globalized economy
Did Mr Rogers’s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters?
Touch by Paul Schrader, based on a twenty year old novel by Elmore Leonard, has an appealing premiss but with no idea of what to do with it. The premiss is that a young former Franciscan calling himself Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich), but whose real name is Charles Lawson, returns from a missionary calling in the…