I wanted to like this. I loved the trailers. I love Katharine Heigl. It got great reviews from most quarters. Maybe my expectations were overly inflated, or perhaps I’m simply not the right demographic for the film. Anyway, it wasn’t so much that the humor offended me as that I simply didn’t find most of [...]
Rather slight but entertaining British WWII black comedy/suspenser. Alistair Sim, as perfect as ever, plays a detective brought in to solve a murder committed among a group of army doctors and nurses, a task made more difficult by the suspects’ complex romantic involvements and friendships; basically, all of them have motive and opportunity. This film [...]
This novel preceeded Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being by five years, and I can’t say it quite lived up to the later work, but it’s still very evocative and heartbreaking on its own. Through three different but thematically connected stories, Kundera examines the place of memory and forgetfulness within personal relationships, history, and especially [...]
What fun this movie is! I knew that it was a POW escape film, but I didn’t guess it would be able to make three hours of POWs planning and attempting to execute an elaborate escape plan so engaging. Most of the POWs are British, with the exception of Steve McQueen, the sole American representative. [...]
Pedro Almodóvar is the most renowned Spanish filmmaker probably ever, and I’m beginning to see why. Volver means “to return,” and characters within the film return to their hometowns, return to their families, perhaps even return to life. It’s a return to that which is important. Yet at its center, the film is comic…in the [...]
