Black Hawk Down (2001)

La Ronde — or is it La Dolce Vita? — goes to college. Love may be elusive, but there is plenty of sex, booze and drugs to take your mind off the fact.

The idea behind this movie is mistaken, I think, but its execution makes it very watchable

SLC Punk is another teen movie, but one with a serious purpose that is not lost sight of in the first five minutes. Obviously based on the personal experience of the writer-director James Merendino, it presents us with the inherently comic picture of a post-high school punk rocker, called Stevo (Matthew Lillard), and the not…

A surprisingly affectionate portrayal of American “success”-worship and its discontents which is also a barrel of laughs

Lethal Weapon 4 was, according to the credits, directed by Richard Donner, but it might as well have been directed by a computer. Here is the perfect summer blockbuster movie in which the formulae perfected in the first three installments in the series are employed once again, the explosions and the hair-breadth escapes are even…

A wife’s Mission Impossible to bring hubby back from the war. You don’t suppose it could — possibly — fail do you?