Body Heat
[See “Entry from July 30, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from July 30, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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A memorable portrayal of an interplanetary seductress disguised as a disguised Scarlett Johansson
Is it possible to make a movie about reality TV that’s more cheesy than reality TV? Amazingly enough, it is.
Chris Rock’s adaptation of — of all people — Eric Rohmer is often funny but morally and dramatically incoherent.
An unexpectedly amusing variation on an old French theme
Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal after they butchered the movie on release, may be the best B-picture ever made. Watching it today, you have to wonder if he knew what he was doing — which was anticipating the postmodern film…
Another hokey and tasteless attempt at audience manipulation from the Merchant-Ivory rubbish factory