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The Castle of Cagliostro
Miyazaki’s second animated film is a enjoyably dopey caper. Saturday morning fun. →
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
A quaintly daffy Italian '60s crime mystery with maybe more comedy now than it intended. →
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To Catch a Thief
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and the French Riviera; what a disgustingly beautiful and perfect film this is. →
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Great Balls of Fire
A biopic of Jerry Lee Lewis that's surprisingly forgiving of him marrying his 13 year old cousin. →
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Cat People
Influential psychological thriller that coined a lot of film tropes. Enjoyable from a historical perspective more than anything. →
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Noah
A bit half-baked, like enough ideas for a TV series but squashed into a film. Winstone, Crowe and Connelly all at their most generic. →
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The Rover
A nihilistic, gritty Australian road thriller. Tense and miserable. Guy Pearce does his best Mad Max and Robert Pattinson excels. →
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Terminator 2
I don't care how good the film is, whenever teenage John Connor is on screen, I'm rooting for Skynet. →
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Popeye
A bizarre sort of anti-comedy. Not only not funny but seemed to actually take comedy out of the universe, destroying in the process. →
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Scanners
Eh, kind of dull after the initial head exploding. Overrated. →
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The Lone Ranger
Just a joyless, endless dirge of a film. Johnny Depp’s performance and portrayal of Tonto is absolutely horrific. →
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The Blues Brothers
Cinematic perfection. Have you seen the light? →
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Heavy Metal
Animated adaptation of stories from the influential magazine. Incredibly juvenile, like a 13 year old had storyboarded it. →
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Mood Indigo
The most Michel Gondriest Michel Gondry film I’ve ever seen. Overwhelmed with ideas and bleaker than its initial whimsy lets on. →
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47 Ronin
Bafflingly mediocre. →
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Maybe the best sci-fi TV series pilot episode I’ve ever seen. →
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Seduced & Abandoned
Enjoyable sort-of-documentary with Alec Baldwin in Cannes trying to finance a film. Not hugely enlightening, fun anyway →
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Tender Mercies
Robert Duvall as an alcoholic country & western singer trying to put his life back together. Almost relentlessly agreeable. →
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The Hitcher
Features Rutger Hauer jumping from a moving vehicle in slow-motion into a car windshield with a lion roar sound effect. Perfect. →
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Cold Souls
A film about transferable souls that really wanted to be written by Charlie Kaufman. An interesting idea but there’s no spark. →