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The Last Metro
François Truffaut's entry in the parade of sorrowful and pitiful movies about France under the Occupation is really more of a companion piece to his Day for Night, except that whereas the latter proposed a toast to movie people, this ...
Blood Simple
This, the first feature of Minnesota-based independent filmmaker Joel Coen (who co-wrote the script with his producer, and brother, Ethan), has something of the old B-movie spirit at its most lofty: that groaning desire to find out how much can ...
Love Me Tonight
The introductory sequence, in which the rhythmic noises of early-morning Paris are worked into a massive musical number, is in the style of Disney's Silly Symphonies. In most other areas, this Rouben Mamoulian musical is in the style of Ernst ...
Between the Lines
A different and diffident sort of movie comedy, which takes up the limited-interest subject of a Boston underground newspaper, why it lost its aim in the post-Nixon Seventies, and how it finishes the good fight not with a bang, but ...
Man Bites Dog
A test of stomach-strength: cold-blooded serial murder, a vat of gore, a bucket of vomit. Any takers? The story is told through the lens of a low-budget documentary film crew (grainy black-and-white), following the killer on his rounds. The complicity ...
A Fish Called Wanda
Dishonor among thieves, two Brits and two Yanks to be exact, plus a proper bewigged barrister who's drawn into the mess. There are plenty of fresh and funny ideas: the use of foreign languages as an aphrodisiac, a gunsel who ...
Lust in the Dust
A bust. The secret to the hidden gold of Chili Verde is tattooed on two different women's bottoms: a gimmick very similar was tried in the spaghetti Western, The Stranger and the Gunfighter. Whether this movie has matched that one ...
Undead
Zombies in Australia, not too different from zombies in Pennsylvania, but spoofier. Low-low-budget and low-low-brow. Photographed all in blue, violet, lavender. With Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, and Lisa Cunningham; written, directed, produced, and edited by the Spierig brothers, ...
My Soul to Take
The Riverton Ripper, after a sixteen-year hiatus, strikes again. Has he returned or has he rather been reincarnated? Endangered teenagers in 3‑D, as if they weren’t sufficiently unlifelike already. With Max Thieriot, Emily Meade, and John Magaro; directed by Wes ...
Lost in Yonkers
It commences in the summer of '42 and continues for a period of ten months, the length of stay of two early-teen brothers with their tyrannical grandmother in the wake of their mother's death and while their father is away ...
Star Trek Into Darkness
Just attended the special advance preview screening in San Diego last night of "Star Trek: Into Darkness." As a committed lifelong Trekkie who's seen every original episode and film far more times than I care to admit (has it been that many?) I have to confess that walking into the ...Letter to the Editor | 3 days, 21 hours ago
Lore
They kill the dog? Just lost all my sympathy...jnojr | 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Olympus Has Fallen
Rip-off of Vince Flynn's "Transfer of Power"jnojr | 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Olympus Has Fallen
Nothing more than a mirthless, suspenseless and utterly pointless Die Hard ripoff. See this only if you too can put all of your critical faculties on hold. Man, do I miss Duncan Shepherd. (And for the record, Gerard Butler is not a disgraced former secret service man. He's an actor.)Dragonfly | 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Barbara
Thanks for recommending this, Scott. With a power outage in our neighborhood, Susan and I went out for dinner & a film and luckily chose this on your say so. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Susan particularly liked it so much, saying it was a such good performance from the leading ...GWH | 2 months, 1 week ago