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Mike Peters is getting over the demise of a six year relationship. Well, actually, he isn't. His friends try desperately to take his mind off the ex love of...
You may have gathered by now that I'm a pretty big fan of Soderbergh's. I'm even one of what seem the half a dozen people that love Schizopolis. Therefore,...
Why do stories affect us so much? The power of a good story is astonishing: it seems to find a weakness in all those determined adult defences of reason and...
A satire on Hollywood's world of cheap excess, the film begins with a death, and the overblown melodrama of an operatic score. Ivan is dead, so we flash back...
Based on the real life Shining Path guerrillas in Peru, first time director Malkovich avoids specifics and simply declares at the beginning of the film that we...
Despite me being a big fan of 'Nicole Kidman' I have been avoiding this film for some time now (i.e. on at least three occasions I could have seen this, but...
The building looks like a run down school. Some people arrive, and are interviewed separately. The interviewers confirms that they are dead, and that they...
An epic tale of the Jewish mafia in New York, concentrating on De Niro's character "Noodles". De Niro is on great form, as is his main co-star James Woods. I...
Through the dirty, grimy lens, we witness a young man commiting an apparently meaningless murder. There follows the state ritual of execution. Both acts are...
There's one thing that often stands out in a Mike Figgis movie, and that's the music. This is certainly no exception – with it's lovely jazz score, and some...
There's Maddin's brilliant "Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary". And then there's this tedious earlier film. I suppose there's a fundamental problem in my...
One of those Hollywood romantic comedies that's as warm and cosy as a thick blanket. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in a story where a husband remarries,...
The set up is as follows: M.D. Christian Bale, and his dissertation finishing girlfriend Kate Beckinsale, have to travel to the West Coast for him to take some...
I was interested to note on the recent special edition Citizen Kane DVD documentary that Orson Welles apparently watched Stagecoach before making Kane, in...
"Listen to them, children of the night. What music they make." I remember as a kid how those words struck terror into my heart. Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula,...
Jennifer Anniston gives a surprisingly good performance in this comedy drama. I say surprisingly, given the fairly lacklustre move careers of the other...
Here is the young teenage world depicted with both exuberance and painful precision. Here is all the worshiping at the altar of music idols; the naïve...
Having just written the review below, I've taken a quick look at what the other Mike (filmfan99uk) said a few days ago (if you haven't read it, it's well worth...
There's plenty to enjoy in this first feature from Burr Steers. Susan Sarandon as a self-centred Mother who likes her "peppies". Or Jeff Goldblum as Igby's...
It's almost impossible to watch a film like Titanic without bringing along a whole trunk load of preconceptions. It is so monumentally "uncool" these days...
A ship sails from Naples in 1914. The motley people on board are there to take the ashes of the world's greatest soprano for scattering at sea near some...
So it goes like this. 'Tom Cruise' is an American Civil War veteran, who is recruited by the Japanese Emperor, to train an army, to take on the rebellious...
I caught this last week in at the Film Forum in Manhattan. I lucked into noticing a blurb about it while reading the Village Voice on the train New Years Day...
An apartment in Taiwan, which is the link between three people. May Lin is an estate agent whose company is going to sell the property. However, she uses it...
Lets face it, we have all been in the situation at: a party, function, works do, whatever, where you know absolutely no one. Then all of a sudden you spot the...
As part of a course I've just started, I have been watching the two versions of Cape Fear which were released about 30 years apart. We now have the benefit of...
I always think it's just me - and it probably is – when so called great films leave me cold. Bresson is recognised as one of the great directors, and this...
With a free afternoon it was a straight choice between this and COLD MOUNTAIN. Certainly my natural instincts were to go with the goddess Kidman. However epics...
