Heaven Can Wait

Cleverness and humor in the manipulation of absurdity can only take you so far. Just about this far, in fact.

M by Fritz Lang, first made in 1931, has now been reissued in a new and refurbished print and is a film which movie buffs all ought to rush out to see. The use of the camera and the visual imagery and composition in this story of what we should nowadays call a serial killer,…

Still Crazy, directed by Brian Gibson from a script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, also the writers of The Commitments, does about as good a job as it is possible to do with such predictable material as the reunion twenty years later of an aging 70s pop group. The recent Velvet Goldmine dealt…

In spite of a tremendous performance by Noah Taylor as the young Hitler, Menno Mayjes’s film is fatally mired in the present.

The Hollywood in-joke of presenting Jack Nicholson as a therapist for angry people takes this movie a long way, but not long enough.

Did Mr Rogers’s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters?