They Were Expendable (1945)

An enjoyable comedy like the earlier films of Nicole Holofcener but one which ultimately denies its own pretensions to seriousness

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The Farrelly brothers aren’t impressed by shallow, skin-deep beauty
like Gwyneth Paltrow’s. Not much they aren’t.

Mira Sorvino is the only triumphant thing about this inept adaptation of a Marivaux play.

A feel-bad movie about one of the world’s more intractable crisis points which unwittingly illustrates the inadequacies of the progressive approach to such problems

Shooting Fish by Stefan Schwartz stars Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as Dylan and Jez (short for Jeremiah), an American and an Englishman who team up to run various scams in the interests, they say, of some orphans, namely themselves. If this strikes you as a jolly jape, you may be as much stuck in…