The sun rises on a field of golden grass as 300 cavalry officers rise out of hiding, mount, and ride hard for the enemy's tents with drawn sabers and cries of war on their lips. Columns of soldiers labor up hills driving horses dragging grotesque machines of war. A stallion gallops over the tops of trenches at dusk, leaping over the refuge of ( Read more... )

BUM. BA DA BUM. BA DA BUM. BA DA BUM BUM.

A new Indiana Jones movie? Ridiculous! Those old men! Grouse grouse grouse.

That's bollocks. The new Indiana Jones movie is fantastic. IJATKOTCS combines the action of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) with the humor and warmth of INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), while borrowing nothing at ( Read more... )

LITTLE VOICE (1998) 2/5 stars ( Read more... )

CLOCKWATCHERS (1997) 1/5 stars ( Read more... )

This film is pretty heavy. For those who don't know, it was directed by Steven Spielberg, from a smart, literate screenplay by Eli Roth and Tony Kushner, and tells a true story beginning with the hostage taking and murder of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes during the 1972 games in Munich. The killers were Palestinian nationalists belonging to an ( Read more... )