Big Sleep, The

A child’s-eye view, and therefore a rather amusing treatment, of social pathologies that are, in reality, not at all amusing

Gekko No Sasayaki or “Moonlight Whispers” is a brilliant little Japanese film, written and directed by Akihiko Shiota, about young love which suddenly spins out of control and becomes sexual perversion. Not a very promising subject, you might think, and the quasi-clinical dimension of the film, though it has a serious point to make, is…

The word “honor” turns up conspicuously in only one place, apart from the title, in Men of Honor, which was directed by George Tillman Jr. from a script by Scott Marshall Smith based on the true story of the U.S. Navy’s first black diver, Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.). This comes as Brashear is facing…

Come to think of it, the capacity of Scott’s “minist’ring angel” to be beastly to her menfolk and even more beastly to other women has always been comic.

The latest Coen brothers film is a remake of a 1955 classic that seems not to notice that the entire moral context of the original has vanished

A delightful trip down memory lane for anyone with an interest in British “football” — i.e. soccer — of the 1970s