In Which We Serve (1942)
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An inspirational tribute to European unity from a director who is clearly capable of better things
A feminist fairy-tale can only succeed, one suspects, to the extent that it marginalizes its feminism.
The most romantic film-maker still to be found in la douce France turns his camera on an unlikely event, the defeat of 1940, with enjoyable results.
Fallen, written by Nicholas Kazan and directed by Gregory Hoblit from the novel by Dawn Steele is an idiotic fantasy about a Biblical demon called Azazel who inhabits the body of a murderer named Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). When Reese is executed for his crimes, the spirit of Azazel transmigrates into the bodies of various…
The now familiar practice of making machines into the heroes of our favorite technological romances has taken another leap forward.
A funny and enjoyable movie but also one which loses a great opportunity through taking the movies too much at their own valuation