They Were Expendable (1945)

An interesting and engaging adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel which might even signal a wider cultural turning away from the liberationist view of sexual passion

For just a moment, about half way through, Hollow Reed by Angela Pope looks as if it is going to face a difficult problem honestly. Talk about suspense! But just as, when it looks as if the hero of a movie like Con Air is done for, you know he can’t be, so here you…

Don’t go to this movie if you are expecting a barrel— or even a small pitcher — of laughs.

James Bond? Isn’t he “the dude/Who lets the girl down before/The hero arrives”

A beautiful if harrowing film about a clash between medieval and modern in which neither looks much like a winner

I tried very hard to like Loser, the latest from Amy Heckerling of Clueless fame. And, indeed, there is much to like about it. Its hero, Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs) is a poor but likeable guy from a poor but likeable rural family who goes to college in the big city (a thinly disguised New…