Between Two Worlds

8mm, directed by Joel Schumacher stars Nicholas Cage as Tom Wells, a private investigator engaged by an elderly widow to find out the truth about an 8mm film she has found among her late husband’s effects. On the film there appears to be recorded the violent death of a young girl, murdered before our eyes…

Charming, funny, but also morally serious, this is about as good as American movie-making gets these days

Every cliché of the post-1960s prison movie is taken out and put through its paces, but don’t worry: it’s all in fun

Mrs Dalloway is directed by Marleen Gorris, the Dutch director of the unrelentingly feminist Antonia’s Line, from a screenplay by Eileen Atkins. The screenplay, so far as I can tell, is very faithful to Virginia Woolf’s novel, so fans of Mrs Woolf may enjoy it. The rest of us may take it as Ms Gorris…

An interesting updating of Henry James’s novel chiefly worth seeing for the performance of its title character

“Tyger, Tyger burning bright.” See the connection with comic-book superheroes? No, I didn’t either.