Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Another movie celebration of media narcissism, and an evocation of pathos for the long recessional of the newspaper business’s terminal decline

Dangerous Beauty by Marshall Herskovitz bills itself as a “true story” of Venice in the 1580s, but if there is one thing this film is not, it is not true to Venice in the 1580s. The story of a courtesan and a poetess called Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) is made into an object lesson in…

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A thoughtful and very watchable film whose performance does not quite match its ambition

Hands on a Hard Body by S.R. Bindler is a documentary about a contest, held annually in Longview, Texas, by the Jack Long Nissan dealership, which gives away a $15,000 pickup truck to the contestant who can keep at least one hand on the truck longer than anyone else, given five minute breaks every hour…

This silly and mindless remake of an American classic is a huge disappointment