A Brief Affair

Lea and Rocco (Pilar Fogliati, Adriano Giannini) meet in a bar and embark on an affair, even though they’re both married; soon, Lea starts crossing lines. This may sound like…

Marsupilami 

This sequel to HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami (2012) brings along Jamel Debbouze for another adventure featuring the super-strong, ape-like creature. To anyone who grew up with André…

The Invite: Indecent Proposal

Photo: A24 In my last apartment, I used to have neighbors upstairs whose sexual activities occasionally woke me up in the middle of the night. His climax would be my…

The Missouri Breaks

A gang of rustlers headed by Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) find themselves in conflict with an eccentric ”regulator” (Marlon Brando). Arthur Penn’s Western was considered a bomb by many after…

Exodus: A Battle for Israel

Paul Newman. Photo: United Artists There was a time in my youth when I believed in a solution in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. After the fall of…

Mortal Kombat II

Washed-up action star Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) is approached by people with strange powers who need him to fight with them in an upcoming Mortal Kombat tournament. Just as promised…

Another Country

In the 1930s, a gay student (Rupert Everett) at an Eton-type university grows increasingly tired of the school’s system of oppression and suppression. The play is a British classic, especially…

A Slight Case of Murder

When Prohibition ends, bootlegger Remy Marco (Edward G. Robinson) forces his gang (and wife) to go straight, building a brewing empire… but nothing goes his way. Not one of the…

Greenland: Migration

Five years after reaching Greenland, the Garritys are forced to leave the underground bunker and find a new sanctuary on what’s left of the European continent. There’s hope for a…

Random Harvest: Deconstructing Smithy

Greer Garson and Ronald Colman. Photo: MGM It didn’t take long for James Hilton’s novel to be filmed. After all, two previous books he wrote became highly successful movies, Lost…