The Mask of Zorro

Buckles get swashed good and hard and sexy in The Mask of Zorro, and I find its energy, sense of fun and adventure, and its action to be invigoratingly intoxicating. This is one of the most purely enjoyable action movies of the 90s, and it makes the reboot of a long dead franchise feel like…

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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

I remember reading that Dr. Seuss had written a movie, I jumped at the chance to view it. Of course, that means that I put it to my Netflix DVD queue and wait patiently for it to reach number 1. But, we have finally come to the day that it arrived and I have to…

The Skin Game

#26 in my Ranking of Alfred Hitchcock's films. I found it hard to not think about Juno and the Paycock as I finished The Skin Game and read the little there is to read about it. Much like the former picture, The Skin Game is based on a play, but unlike Juno, it actually feels…

Sarah’s Key

I found this tedious and maudlin until the final act got going. It got better from there, but not enough to save the movie overall. I can see how many people would get hit by it emotionally, but I just didn't feel it, finding the character work too thin, the structure undermining to the overall…

The Killer Inside Me

Movies that try to delve into the psychology of sociopathic killers have an inherent issue that distances the work from the audience. It's not, actually, that the audience can't connect with a killer, it's that the movie usually has little to actually say about the state of being a killer. Even Ingmar Bergman hit this…