The Frame

Jordan is a really good director, able to take strange plots and turn them into something more. Ultimately The Crying Game isn’t quite as successful as I’d hoped.

In this adaptation from Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando a nobleman born in the 16th century whose life encompasses the following three centuries. And, oh yeah, sometime in the mid-19th century, he becomes a woman. These two things are never explained. And the book works, but the movie works less well, largely because director Sally Potter [...]

After my disappointment with the generally-acclaimed The Proposition last month, I was a little wary of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning revisionist Western, but that wariness turned out to be unfounded. Eastwood plays a former gunslinger asked to come out of retirement in order to track down a man who beat up one of the local, um, [...]

Geez, who knew real estate was so cutthroat? A firm of investment real estate brokers is cutting back its staff, by giving its worst leads on potential customers to the oldest and weakest brokers; in an attempt to save their jobs, a few of them band together to steal the good leads. And…that’s it. Pretty [...]