Invasion of the Body Snatchers

They just don’t make cads the way they used to

This film by Peter Hedges tries hard to be both charming and uplifting but doesn’t quite succeed in being either

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

Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder from a script by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, is one of what I take to be a new breed of Hollywood disaster flicks. Modeled on Independence Day, these are apocalyptic in scale, overburdened with special effects and pitched to a younger teen audience, but they are still…

If our moronic politicians were not as corrupt as three-day-old roadkill they wouldn’t need the media to tell them what to do

Jim Carrey plays the only decent, honest guy in the world who, having been screwed over by the system, turns to crime. What’s so funny about that?