They Were Expendable (1945)

Grey Gardens by David and Albert Maysles is a re-release of the film they made in the 1970s about two women made interesting to the camera by the accident of celebrity, yet whose interest for us is owing simply to their strange and rather pathetic humanity. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter of the same…

Poor Meg Ryan can’t seem to find a decent role in which she is allowed to be a grown-up. Whose idea was it to try making her a boxing manager dressed like a hooker?

Some people are fiddling with one of the greatest classics of the American popular culture without, apparently, knowing what they’ve got their hands on

The original was pretty dire, but the re-make is unspeakably awful

One of those rare movies that manages to improve on an already fine fictional original

The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake by John McTiernan of the classic of 1968 which starred Steve McQueen, is what I like to call a designer movie. True, it is also a cleverly conceived heist caper whose interesting premiss is that a rich man, the eponymous Mr. Crown (Pierce Brosnan), in search of excitement will…