Take The City And Run

Directed by Paul Schrader
Bob Crane: A day without sex…
John Carpenter: …is a day wasted!
A well-made, well-shot biopic. But, unfortunately, it suffers the flaws of so many biopics in that it tends to be too episodic and much of the supporting cast seem to be used as little more than props in hitting the standard plot […]

Directed by Woody Allen
An enjoyable re-teaming of one of the best on-screen duos of the Seventies. Keaton and Allen, here, seem absolutely natural together, as if no time has passed since 1979’s Manhattan. If not for their graceful comic partnership, the somewhat outlandish plot may not have worked, but they carry it well. And I […]

Directed by Sidney Lumet
Jackie: Send me to jail. I’m not guilty, but I’m used to it.
There is admittedly something clever — even if a bit distracting — about the way in which the film straddles the line between drama and comedy. But, ultimately, the film plays more like a series of highlights stringed together from […]

Directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross
Man, that was the worst Bob Hope/Bing Crosby movie I ever saw! Seriously, though, the mix of interviews with the Tipton Three and dramatizations of their accounts is well done and becomes much more relevant as the brutality of their imprisonment is revealed. The major question that comes to […]