Fistful of Dollars

Every cliché of the post-1960s prison movie is taken out and put through its paces, but don’t worry: it’s all in fun

The animated film Shrek, based on a story by William Steig and directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, is a deconstruction of the fairy tale. It is so literally, in the sense that what drives the eponymous ogre out of his homey swamp and into his parody of a fairy tale quest is an…

The very funny if not quite morally serious tale of a modern day Candide.

Poor Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard! The only fugitives he ever gets to chase are Houdini-like in their ability to wriggle out of certain capture and who thus put him through a hell of frustration over and over (and over and over) again. . .and then they turn out to be innocent! Oops! Hope I didn’t…

The Cruise, directed by Bennett Miller, is really a one-man show featuring Timothy “Speed” Levitch, a tour guide with the Gray Line Tours in New York, who is a non-stop talker in a distinctively New York fashion, spouting a mixture of pseudo-profundity and nonsense in a vain attempt to show himself off as sage, prophet,…

Weird but not nearly weird enough to escape from being really boring and self-indulgent.