Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

The Slums of Beverly Hills, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins is another meditation on family, this time the highly dysfunctional, motherless Abramowitz family in Southern California in 1976. The patriarch, Murray Abramowitz (Alan Arkin) is a sometime car salesman but mainly unemployed drifter who moves his family around from one cheap apartment or motel…

The movies can’t help themselves: they chase the chimera of the “real man” within the great man as great men themselves once chased military glory

A movie that prompts the reflection that the therapeutic romance isn’t really romantic at all

La Ronde — or is it La Dolce Vita? — goes to college. Love may be elusive, but there is plenty of sex, booze and drugs to take your mind off the fact.

A funny but pointless movie that has already died the death at the box office. Why is that, I wonder?

Guys & Balls (Männer wie wir), directed by Sherry Horman and written by Benedikt Gollhardt, is based on the perennial gay fantasy of the latent homosexuality of those involved in such manly pursuits as soccer — or football as it is known to the rest of the world. Ecki (Maximilian Brückner) is the goalie for Boldrup…