Worth Seeing
[See discussion under “My Diary” for July 12, 2012]
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Lethal Weapon 4 was, according to the credits, directed by Richard Donner, but it might as well have been directed by a computer. Here is the perfect summer blockbuster movie in which the formulae perfected in the first three installments in the series are employed once again, the explosions and the hair-breadth escapes are even…
Serious scientific history provides a great excuse for watching sado-masochistic sex
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Just another po mo fantasy? Just another superhero movie? I’m afraid so.
The gentle humor of this coming-of-age story is perhaps just a touch too gentle.
Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal after they butchered the movie on release, may be the best B-picture ever made. Watching it today, you have to wonder if he knew what he was doing — which was anticipating the postmodern film…
