Badlands (1973)

The Mighty directed by Peter Chelsom and based on the novel by Rodman Philbrick, is at least an improvement annoying Simon Birch of last month, though it uses essentially the same device: doomed crippled kid who is nevertheless smart as a whip (I have known a lot of crippled kids, by the way, and never…

If our moronic politicians were not as corrupt as three-day-old roadkill they wouldn’t need the media to tell them what to do

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

The fine Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar employs his talents unworthily on behalf of propaganda for “the right to die”

A Puerto Rican charmer should have stayed a drug dealer and not got mixed up with those crooks on Wall Street.

The first question to be asked about the shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, directed from Alfred Hitchcock’s original shooting script by Gus Van Sant, is why? What is the point? Couldn’t they just have got Ted Turner to “colorize” the great man’s greatest masterpiece? Why bother to hire a whole new cast and crew to go…