Defending Your Life

A fitfully engaging thriller, as such things go these days, which falls apart in the last ten minutes

What a lot of trouble and expense David Mamet goes to just to tell a few
jokes.

The gay fantasy of sex divorced from sin is superimposed on a community of Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles

This hagiography of a pornographer is a perfect summing up of the culture of Hollywood today

La Vita è Bella or Life is Beautiful was directed and co-written by Roberto Benigni, who stars as Guido Orefice, a Jewish waiter in Arezzo before the war. He woos and wins his wife, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), whom he calls la principessa — the princess — in memorably comic and romantic style and manages to…

You’d think that Richard Curtis would have reduced the Hugh Grant romantic comedy to a formula by now, but by branching out like this, he has only made a mess