Slow-moving but ultimately worthwhile. A surveillance camera monitor sees someone she knows during the course of her job, leading her on a breakneck path to revenge–exactly what or why or how it’s not clear for a long time, but by the end it becomes much more than just a revenge story; rather, it’s a redemption [...]
Heh. Anytime the Harry Potter films come up, you get the battle between the book purists (”but they left so much out!”) and the non-book purists (”so? it’s a really good film!”), sometimes with a smattering of non-book readers (”what the heck was going on, and why does everyone care so much?!”). It’s fun times. [...]
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 [...]
Sidney Poitier plays a young man from Africa who takes the rather undesirable position of a teacher at an inner-city London school to make a little money before he continues his studies to be an engineer. His class of high school seniors is full of hoodlums and smart-alecks who can’t see the point of finishing [...]
Simon Pegg is the best cop on the London force–so good, in fact, that he’s making the rest of his team look bad and he gets “promoted” to a small village in the middle of nowhere. He resists this, but is intent on being the best cop he can be wherever he is, and starts [...]
