Body Heat

Jackie Brown confirms two things we have always really known about Quentin Tarantino at his best (at his worst he is just unspeakable). One is that he is the most compulsively watchable filmmaker now working in America. He knows how to keep an audience riveted to the screen, and he knows how to tell a…

8mm, directed by Joel Schumacher stars Nicholas Cage as Tom Wells, a private investigator engaged by an elderly widow to find out the truth about an 8mm film she has found among her late husband’s effects. On the film there appears to be recorded the violent death of a young girl, murdered before our eyes…

I went out of curiosity to the interesting documentary double billing of Chile, Obstinate Memory and The Battle of Chile Part Two: The Coup d’Etat by Patricio Guzman. The second was the 90-minute central episode extracted from Guzman’s three-part Marxist epic of 1978 and shown first; the first, shown second, was the hour long postscript…

OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?

An amusing fantasy that starts interestingly but then fizzles out

If you could legitimately take, as some reviewers seem illegitimately to have done, the final words of the Pakistani convenience store clerk, Nazir Chowdray (Ajay Naidu), in SubUrbia as the real direction in which the film is heading, it would not have been at all a bad picture — though written by Eric Bogosian (from…