Heaven Can Wait

This hagiography of a pornographer is a perfect summing up of the culture of Hollywood today

One of those rare movies that manages to improve on an already fine fictional original

Speed 2: Cruise Control by Jan De Bont is even more mindless than the first Speed and is perhaps postmodern filmmaking at its most cynical and exploitative. That is to say, there is hardly any attempt to put together a coherent drama which would help us to make some sense of the relentless series of…

Sensitive young men who feel betrayed by their heroic but unfeeling fathers (and mothers) have so been done to death, yet we never seem to tire of them

Pay it Forward by Mimi Leder is meant to be another in what I take to be a new series of heart-tugging, inspirational tales like Music of the Heart or American Beauty (which also starred Kevin Spacey) that derive their oomph from the assumption that life in America is pretty grim and miserable but that…

A movie that seems to have been made more for the critics and the film-makers themselves than for general audiences