Black Hawk Down (2001)

A post-modern prank about a post-modern prankster that still takes itself too seriously

Double Jeopardy, directed by Bruce Beresford, is the latest example of what is coming to be one of Hollywood’s favorite new genres: the female paranoia movie. Like The Astronaut’s Wife of a few weeks ago, it deliberately sets out to exploit the sort of insecurity that has become endemic, in some ways the most destructive…

Hard Rain by Mikael Salomon could have been and almost is a really competently managed thriller. Half-way through it I was weighing up whether it deserved one or two stars and delighting in what I took to be an unexpected throwback to the old days in Hollywood when the stories the movies told were tough…

David Spade may not be the most unfunny of the alumni of “Saturday Night Live” to have gone to Hollywood, but he gives Rob Schneider a run for his money.

If this is how both sides in America have decided to do politics in the age of Trump, there’s not much point finding fault, is there?

An engrossing French thriller that almost succeeds in reminding us of Hollywood’s great days — now, alas, long past