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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…

The American distributors who refused an American market to Adrian Lyne’s new film version of Lolita until it was already booked for its first run on Showtime, the cable network (beginning on August 2), said that they did so on the grounds that the film was no good. Of course, these are the same people…

A documentary about a man who lost his memory gradually turns into a celebration of his right to self-reinvention

What might have been devastating satire becomes just a funny movie about crazy people — not that that’s nothing

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