Kevin Reynolds, who hit it big with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and then met a watery grave in Waterworld, directs this Count with unfussy efficiency. He has a grand villain in Guy...
Eight Crazy Nights is ... a fable of redemption that paradoxically confirms the protagonist in his degradation. - The Spectator EDIT ...
In two, three years, this movie will look as clunky as The Jazz Singer did by the early Thirties. But it will remain a crucial document in cinematic evolution, a pioneer cyberflick, a...
The arguments for the desensitising of the audience are complicated, the ones for their dumbing-down are less so. But what bugs me, speaking as a gnarled old woodsman, is the way these...
If the cast looks ordinary, you should see the plot. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Jan 29, 2018 ...
If [it] sounds like the usual preoccupations of pop-culture parody, what lifts it above is Rodriguez's ability to create a self-contained world all of its own restless, wacky, beautiful...
There's so much to like about Wes Anderson's work, and it's hard not to warm to a guy who makes a comedy about damaged young has-beens. But he misfires badly in some crucial respects....
The film-makers have hung their satire on a slender and oh so familiar conceit - that dog-show types project their ambitions and their vanities onto their mutts. - The Spectator ...
[Inarritu's] triumph - helped by a cast of unknown actors who more than meet the standards of Hollywood venismo - is to give so lurid a sequence of events the force of reality; and make...
If you only see one difficult-old-lady movie this year, well, this one's better than Iris. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
The effect is much cruder than the book: you're aware of the geometric patterns linking the parallel stories; everything seems a little too pat, the emblems of the era a little too obviously...
It would be better if if Philip Stark's flibbertygibbety disconnected structure was linking better jokes. - The Spectator EDIT ...
Here Miller's starting from scratch and, sadly, he's got nothing to say. - The Spectator EDIT Read More |...
After a while, the insane recklessness of Reitman's slapdash timing begins to assume a weird cool. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
Mark Steyn Looney Tunes: Back in Action PG, selected cinemas Iooney Tunes: Back in Action marries i I the septuagenarian Warner Bros megastars Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck with live-action Johnny-come-latelys...
Mark Steyn The Ring Two 15, selected cinemas Ihate to dismiss entire genres, but I’m not sure I get the whole Americanisation-ofJapanese-horror-movies thing. In the Japanese originals, the point seems...
Mark Steyn The Island 12A, selected cinemas No man is an island, at least according to John Donne. But I wonder if we’ll be able to make the same confident assumption the day after tomorrow when it...
Mark Steyn A Guy Thing (124 selected cinemas) Idon't believe this column has ever discussed the vital cinematic question of the diarrhoea gag perhaps back in Graham Greene's day, or Peter Ackroyd's,...
Mark Steyn Saved! (12A, selected cinemas) Saved I follows the template of your standard high-school comedy: there's a clique of in-girls headed by a preening teen queen, and assorted oddball outsiders...
Mark Steyn Coffee & Cigarettes 15, selected cinemas T like coffee, I like tea, [like the java jive, 1 but the Jarmusch jive is another matter entirely. Jim Jarmusch has been working on Coffee & Cigarettes...
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