Defending Your Life

Yet another Hollywood attempt to bring the good old rom-com up to date. Who knew that it would prove so difficult?

A haunting documentary that confronts some Khmer Rouge thugs with their victims in an attempt to trace the origins of evil

How do you get away, in today’s Hollywood, with a movie celebrating masculine domination and feminine submission? Easy! Make it a matter of kinky sex.

As I watched Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, I kept asking myself why this movie was being made. The decrepitude of its subject matter is obvious from its very first scenes when we see the eponymous Mr Ripley (Matt Damon) accompanying a lieder singer at a private recital for…

Poor Oscar Wilde! In death as in life he has been defined by his sexuality. To his contemporaries, all that mattered about him was his passion for a stupid and ungrateful youth, Lord Alfred, “Bosie” Douglas (here played by Jude Law), and the scandal of his prosecution for indecency. Then he was a sexual villain;…