Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Hollywood’s on-going, long-term project, The Simpleton’s Guide to Cultural and Media History, is given yet another instalment, thanks to George Clooney

The Dogme 95 movement produces another winner — a feel-good movie whose effects are not cheap. Or not very cheap.

Devil’s Island, directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and written by Einar Karason is set in the 1950s in a former American army base in Iceland called Camp Thule. Into the army’s wartime Quonset huts there have now moved a collection of poor Icelanders who can afford no better place to live and who are looked…

A new Forrest Gump meets Memento, though this is worse than either. Of course it is festooned with Academy Award nominations

That Old Feeling, directed by Carl Reiner, is a vehicle for Bette Midler to do her First Wives’ Club schtick all over again, but this time in the Goldie Hawn role as the over-the-hill starlet, Lilly. Dennis Farina plays her ex-husband, Dan, with whom she is said to have a hostile relationship with nuclear capability….

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint Eastwood from John Berendt’s best seller stars John Cusack as John Kelso, a journalist sent to Savannah by Town and Country magazine to cover one of the highlights of the social season there, a Christmas party given by Mr Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey). But…