Reviews

Thorne also trades her usual peaked cap and blonde hair for a beret and wavier red hair this time around, while Romay sports a super cute pixie cut.) But this also works because Franco seems to rightfully regard authoritarian repression as bad (a low bar, sure, but his film has more conviction than ...

This was a movie we owned on VHS as I was growing up, so I'd seen it a number of times, even though I remembered very little little outside of a magnificently mustachioed Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot and the sweltering Egyptian atmosphere.

(The two funniest moments in the movie involve the drum-and-fife music that plays after this scene, a cross between Yankee Doodle Dandy and Dixie, and the shocked reaction of another prisoner upon learning his abilities.

This hits a lot of the same beats as the original movie, interspersing a number of sexually charged torture sequences throughout the plot, and featuring a male challenger for Ilsa as well as an uprising, although Ilsa is on the other side of the conflict this time around.

There is arguably something quaint about a movie that chooses to tackle racism and misogyny without explicitly addressing structural issues, but I found the movie quite moving in how it depicts the depth to which the characters have had such ideas ingrained in them by society that they're unable to ...

The movie's handling of the monk training tropes perhaps unintentionally emphasizes their hollowness, as the monks don't seem all that better as people and don't seem terribly interested in teaching spiritual matters.

(Affleck briefly channels his douchebag charisma from Mallrats after feeling betrayed by Hartnett and Beckinsale, but this is shortlived.) This movie invites obvious comparisons to Saving Private Ryan and Windtalkers, two sentimental World War II movies from around the same time (the former likely m...

(Theres a scene where Martin Lawrence impersonates Will Smith by saying his name really slowly that never fails to make me laugh.) Here, we get scenes like Martin Lawrence getting shot in the ass during a gunfight with the KKK, Lawrence and Will Smith having a euphemism-laden conversation about ...

This one stars Bruce Li, who the movie introduces as an actor picked to replace Lee and finish his last movie, and then we segue into that film, a generic crime plot where Li plays Lee.

Now, while these characters are not ones I'd like to hang out with were I sober, I did enjoy spending time in this movie, with its stark black and white images, boozy rhythms and rich dialogue written with an ear for drunken inanities.