Category: Reviews

Despite being a much derided actress, I’ve somehow grown fond of Brooke Shields. I quite like her early work

None of the various characters in the three short films that comprise this wildly original anthology behave in ways seen by normal society as “kind,” but the odd and often disturbing “noble deeds” they do are all rooted in a desire for “kindness,”

Although the likes of De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Burt Lancaster are faves, I’ve always been a bit disappointed with myself for never getting around to Bernardo Bertolucci’s two-part historical drama.

Cruise and his elderly mentor Bryan Brown are such cash-chasing, monumental twats in this massive box-office hit that it’s nigh on impossible to look away.

Ah, what better way to start than the Holocaust? Now, as Schindler’s List showed, Amon Göth leisurely shooting inmates from his balcony was fun, but I’m afraid Hollywood’s first attempt at dealing with this cheeriest of subjects