Act of Valor

You can see why the novel The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacqueline Mitchard made such a hit as the first selection of the Oprah book club and why its film version, directed by Ulu Grosbard from a script by Stephen Schiff, will doubtless be the chick flick of the season. There’s a child…

A disappointing attempt to plumb the human depths of a man too shallow to have any

A lamentably bad Christmas movie with no more understanding of the traditions and beliefs it exploits than the ninnies it portrays

Suddenly things in the popular culture begin to seem much, much worse than we had thought them. And we hadn’t thought they were good.

Speed 2: Cruise Control by Jan De Bont is even more mindless than the first Speed and is perhaps postmodern filmmaking at its most cynical and exploitative. That is to say, there is hardly any attempt to put together a coherent drama which would help us to make some sense of the relentless series of…

A rather busy and overstuffed coming-of-age drama with a distinctively Australian touch to it