Silly usurps funny (for the most part) and Peter Sellers usurps Goldie Hawn (completely) in this crackpot British movie pitting the vanity of philandering-but-cultured maturity against the naivete of freewheeling…
A kind of love-child of Buñuel and Leone with more biblical and religious symbolism than one knows what to do with, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist Western El Topo follows a cowboy/priest…
Bearing the marks of its Die Hard director all over it, John McTiernan’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair bears at least as many marks of clichéd filmmaking – ranging…
He’s known for his long movies, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express feels sort of arduous, but the main misfire, as Agatha…
Grumpy, stubborn, half-drunk, sarcastic, and unshaven did nothing to diminish Cary Grant’s charm and unsurpassed presence in his second-to-last film Father Goose, begrudgingly filling the pater familias role to Leslie…
Zany, cooky, and campy to the extreme, with some dialogue to be cherished (“What’s that screaming? A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”) and extra-special effects (see above), Jane…
Arguably the “best” of the Bond movies, You Only Live Twice is remarkably bad by normal film standards—which frown upon flawed shot-reverse shot sequences; ragingly out of control plot elements;…
As silly a film as you’ll ever see, The Good Soldier Schweik (Dobrý voják Svejk) (or anyway, part one of it) bounces through its very long 110-or-so minutes like an…
Without pretense of being anything other than alcohol/drug-fueled dude humor, this dick flick remains true to the Todd Phillips formula of a few guys episodically surviving a few crazy days…
A textbook case of the monstrous feminine like no other, this series of horror/sci-fi cliches run amok with every one-liner in the book (always more effective when uttered with a…
One of the most famous films noir, and for good reason, Laura captures the image (of the image!) of the untouchable woman, the “femme fatale,” with camera tilts galore and…
Another case-in-point of the feelgood romantic-heist-comedy genre not unlike its many predecessors and imitations, How To Steal A Million commits that infamously Hollywood cheat by inserting two gorgeous and charming…
Precious Bodily Fluids 