Bull Durham

Veteran catcher ”Crash” Davies (Kevin Costner) arrives in Durham, North Carolina to teach a pitcher (Tim Robbins), who’s young but very promising, how to play better. Before embarking on a…

Irma la Douce

In Les Halles, former cop Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) moves in with a prostitute (Shirley MacLaine) he loves and comes up with a plan to make her give up her…

Falling for Christmas

Spoiled hotel heiress Sierra Belmont (Lindsay Lohan) loses her memory after a skiing accident and ends up in the care of a widowed Aspen bed-and-breakfast manager (Chord Overstreet). Lohan’s first…

Stolen Kisses: Antoine Doinel Finds Love

Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud. Photo: United Artists The opening shot places the film firmly in its time, capturing a moment that is long forgotten. We’re shown the French Cinémathèque…

Coming Home: How to Have an Orgasm

Jon Voight and Jane Fonda. Photo: United Artists One of the most important moments in this critically lauded but perhaps slightly forgotten film is a sex scene. Jane Fonda, who…

Off Track

In a moment of weakness, eternal screw-up Lisa (Katia Winter) tells her daughter that she intends to compete in Vasaloppet, a 56-mile ski race; now she has to get in…

Worst Person in the World: Millennial Angst

Renate Reinsve. Photo: Oslo Pictures As Joachim Trier was making his final chapter in a trilogy of films that began with Reprise (2006) and continued with Oslo, August 31st (2011),…

Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

Hiroshima Mon Amour: Prisoners of War

Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada. Photo: Argos Films Another one of those classics that I wasn’t quite prepared for when I was studying film, but which had a much more…

Pretty Woman

Depressed corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) hooks up with a Hollywood Boulevard prostitute (Julia Roberts) and realizes she’s a human being. An enormous box-office hit at the time, this…