Defending Your Life

For Love of the Game, starring Kevin Costner as Billy Chapel, an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers who hopes to end his career with a perfect game, turns out to be yet another Costnerian marathon of mawkishness and self indulgence. Oddly for a film that is ostensibly about a guy who has to learn…

A charming fable of an environmentally friendly machine which proves to be the redeemer of mankind. Where have I heard something like this before?

A documentary about a man who lost his memory gradually turns into a celebration of his right to self-reinvention

The Fifth Element by Luc Besson is what every crappy Hollywood postmodern extravaganza would be if it had the wit and the boldness of the author of La Femme Nikita and The Professional—together with a Hollywood blockbuster-sized budget of $100 million. With it, postmodernism has entered into its rococo phase. Some day, if anyone ever…

A harrowing account of the brutal Japanese occupation of the Chinese capital in 1937, of which few are left alive to tell the tale

A genuinely moving story of a mother in search of her lost child which, nevertheless, suffers from an all-too familiar sort of self-righteousness