Place in the Sun, A

A good old-fashioned melodrama in not-so-good new-fashioned disguise

Near the end of The Mod Squad one of the three drop-dead hip teen cops, Pete Cochran (Giovanni Ribisi), says to another, Julie Barnes (Claire Danes): “Dirty cops, drops at the airport: I feel like one of us should say, ‘We’re getting too old for this s***’.” Julie replies: “At least it’s not going down…

The very funny if not quite morally serious tale of a modern day Candide.

An often funny but basically incoherent satire on the stupidity of contemporary culture by the director of Office Space

David Cronenberg’s is the second of this week’s meditations on “violence” and, though better than Dear Wendy, is still pretty confused

A bit of feminist, anti-corporatist, anti-religious hysteria piggy-backing on Hollywood’s enthusiasm for serial killers