Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Another autumnal triumph from the world’s greatest living film director.

There is a moment in The Wedding Singer, directed by Frank Coraci to a script by Tim Herlihy, that summed the picture up for me. After Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is stood up at his own wedding by the vixenish Linda (Angela Featherstone), he can’t bear to go near a wedding again, so he has…

Happy Together, directed by the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai (Days of Being Wild, Chung-king Express), tells the story of two Chinese youths (Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) living in Argentina. Fai (Mr Leung) and Ho Po Wing (Mr Cheung) are on-again, off-again lovers, the former sober and hard working, the latter a wild…

Mark Twain’s America written and directed by Stephen Low is the latest in IMAX 3-D and illustrates that basic critical principle, the law of the inverse relationship between the sophistication of a film’s technique and the quality of its content. The feeble idea on which this movie is based is that you can relate various…

A Western’s themes and a Western’s morality work surprisingly well among Britons of the Midlands and the lower-mid social status

The movie version of the scatological TV series, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker from a script he co-wrote with Matt Stone and Pam Brady, is billed as satire, but it has no coherent satirical vision. In fact, it cannot even remember what, if anything, it is supposed to be satirical…