Tom Block
Arlington Road has a witty conceit buried beneath its layers of emotional sogginess and shock effects: the idea that domestic…
Peter Greenaway’s 8 1/2 Women begins on a grief note: the immeasurably rich Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) beckons his son…
Bruno Barreto’s Bossa Nova has all the earmarks of a work that was made by a happy man – perhaps…
Whatever happened to films that were impolite enough to scare the hell out of their audiences? I’m talking about movies…
Jeremy Podeswa’s The Five Senses is the latest entry in what has almost become a sub-genre: the "failure to communicate"…
David Fincher’s Fight Club (from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk) is about a special kind of male anger. It’s the…
The Caveman’s Valentine and last year’s American Psycho both take a gander (or pretend to) at American class craziness through…