They Were Expendable (1945)

Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that is not really, as it purports to be, straightforward interviews with four single adults in New York but rather staged interviews in which each of the subjects has been given a chance to work up…

When Shakespeare decided to put a trio of witches into Macbeth he knew that their very presence would suggest to his audience something fearful beyond imagining. They were a kind of algebraic symbol for the unknown quantity of evil which the play, in more realistic fashion, attempted to solve for. Nowadays, the presence of witches…

A bit of determined uplift that would be more effective if it didn’t try so hard

A rather splendidly repellant film about a rather extreme case of sex addiction

What? You don’t buy Angelina Jolie in the role of Sherlock Holmes, the FBI’s ace sleuth who falls for a serial killer? Too bad. Warner Brothers and D.J. Caruso think you’ll go see it anyway.

An absurd historical fantasy that accomplishes the impossible by making even its fellow Shakespeare authorship cranks look good by comparison