Black Hawk Down (2001)

A fresh and amusing take on the career of a real-life gay con-man which suffers from an all-too typical lack of moral focus

The Franco-German director Dominik Moll’s new film is called Harry, Un Ami Qui Vous Veut du Bien, which means, “Harry, a friend who only wants the best for you.” For its American release it has been given the slightly misleading English title of With A Friend Like Harry. . ., but in other English-speaking countries…

A fascinating document for future scholars writing the history of the American celebrity culture

Yet another illustration of Hollywood’s failure to learn the lesson that less is more — particularly when it comes to spooky mysteries

A movie about story-telling and its power for good and evil — especially over the story-tellers themselves. Not to be missed!

Beautiful People, written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar, is what we might call a Rodney King movie—a relatively harmless, feel-good concoction of a familiar kind which asks, rhetorically, “Why can’t we all just get along?” Of course, neither Jasmin Dizdar nor Rodney King is interested in any answer there may be to their question. Instead,…