They Were Expendable (1945)

This is a young man’s movie, but one which even many young people are likely to find very tedious

Shanghai Noon, directed by Tom Dey from a script by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, is a spoof- Western in the manner of Blazing Saddles but with two main differences from Mel Brooks’s classic. One is that it is 26 years further away from the sort of conventions of the genre that Blazing Saddles was…

The Story of Us by Rob Reiner attempts to do for marital difficulty what his earlier film, When Harry Met Sally does for marital concord. Once again he uses the quasi- documentary technique, which is all mixed up with flashbacks of the history of a particular relationship. But you can’t help noticing that there is…

A life-long master of publicity hits the jackpot one more time.

A rare success among many attempts to make a movie which has the heroic heft of epic verse

Chicks behind bars — how can that not be titillating? Liz Garbus has found a way to make it positively dull