Double Indemnity

Walkabout by Nicholas Roeg has joined the ever lengthening list of film classics on re-release this spring, like the Star Wars triology, the Godfather, Das Boot (in a new version), Pink Flamingos and even The Big Sleep. More than any of these others — more even than Star Wars (nothing dates like futurism) — Walkabout…

Senseless, directed by Penelope Spheeris, is a gross-out comedy of the school of Eddie Murphy’s Absent Minded Professor, designed to appeal to upwardly mobile blacks. Marlon Wayans stars as Darryl Whitherspoon, a student working several jobs in order to pay his way through college while at the same time sending money home to his single…

A retrogressive version of the old TV show sounds an intriguing idea until you realize it’s only in order to accommodate the unfunny clowning of Will Ferrell

A harrowing but dramatically not very interesting account of the Japanese sack of Nanjing in 1937 which is said to have killed 300,000 Chinese

Hollywood’s on-going, long-term project, The Simpleton’s Guide to Cultural and Media History, is given yet another instalment, thanks to George Clooney

A poor evocation of the Cold War, this movie redeems itself with a portrayal of men doing their best to cope with a colossal military screw-up.