Last year I reviewed a 2005 film called Star Wrek: In the Pirkinning, an amateur space and time-travel comedy in Finnish that parodied Star Trek and Babylon 5. It was produced on a shoestring budget by a group of friends … Continue reading
This is an immensely likable film, reportedly the highest-grossing Bollywood production in history. It’s mainly a comedy, but there are a lot of dramatic or melodramatic scenes as well and an underlying serious theme about the pressures placed on students … Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that an account of a stammering royal getting speech therapy could make for so excellent and enjoyable a film. There’s more to it that that, including the Duke of York’s being unexpectedly forced by his elder … Continue reading
I saw this when it first came out but had forgotten most of it except the original premise. Mia Farrow is a waitress in the depths of the Great Depression, supporting both herself and her husband, who drinks and gambles … Continue reading
This is the third film a series whose first two entries were reviewed Monday and Wednesday. The Swedish title of this film is Luftslottet som sprängdes. A “luftslott” is literally an “air castle,” but I’m told the connotation is something … Continue reading
I found the film less well-plotted and harder to follow than The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (reviewed Monday). It takes some conscious effort for the viewer to keep things straight. But we learn more about the fascinating Lisbeth Salander, … Continue reading
Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson wrote a series of three mysteries and was at work on a fourth when he died at the age of 44. The title of the first, Män Som Hatar Kvinnor (”Men Who Hate Women”) is apt … Continue reading
The original 21 Jump Street was a late-80s cop show based on a real life LAPD unit made up of officers who looked young enough to go undercover in high schools and colleges. This film is a comedy set in … Continue reading
Those of you familiar with H.P. Lovecraft’s biography probably won’t learn anything new from this documentary, but you might like it anyway because of the intelligent commentary by Peter Straub, Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter, and other horror … Continue reading
Heavy rains and floods strand a bunch of strangers in a rundown Nevada motel off to one side of nowhere. John Cusack, the protagonist, is a limo driver chauffeuring an obnoxious actress played by Rebecca De Mornay. Ray Liotta is … Continue reading