Eddie Anderson (Kirk Douglas) is a successful advertising executive who has everything but he’s still not happy. So one day, on his way to work, he deliberately crashes his car in an effort to get himself out of a rut which, he feels, is killing him.
This is the beginning of Elia Kazan’s 1969 film The […]
This piece is about six years old but I’m quite pleased with it so I present it here. It will, with some revisions, form the basis of an upcoming DVD Times review.
John Boorman is a master of visual style and his films are full of images which
are hard to forget. Unfortunately, he has often […]
I watched “Monster-In-Law” the other day for reasons I won’t go into here and, painfully awful as most of it was, it made me wish that Jane Fonda hadn’t spent fifteen years away from movies. In what is little but a pile of sentimental, toothless shite, she displays enough grace and charisma to blow J-Lo […]