On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Are Americans getting to be the good guys in the movies once again? Well, maybe not altogether so.

Ours is a scary old world, all right, and we cling to our toys like children — but this is a point that it is way too easy to overdemonstrate.

A trip down memory lane to those dim and distant days before September 11^th when everyone in Hollywood knew that America’s armed services were manned by criminals and psychopaths

Devil’s Island, directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and written by Einar Karason is set in the 1950s in a former American army base in Iceland called Camp Thule. Into the army’s wartime Quonset huts there have now moved a collection of poor Icelanders who can afford no better place to live and who are looked…

What is it about Frank Darabont and prisons? Or, for that matter, Stephen King and prisons? Having already idealized prison life in his dreadful version of Mr. King’s dreadful Shawshank Redemption a few years ago, Mr Darabont is at it again in the even more dreadful King story, The Green Mile. In Shawshank, although most…

Robert Altman’s new picture, Cookie’s Fortune, is like all his films in having in it a lot of good things pushed to—and usually way beyond—their limit. Here the relentless folksiness of the sleepy Mississippi town, Holly Springs, is truly charming most of the time, but on occasion it becomes almost enough to give Andy Griffith…