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Swept Away, or Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, as it is more properly known, was made during the most fertile period of director Lina Wertmuller's career. Wertmuller, whose entrée into filmmaking came via working as...

The word that best describes Guy Ritchie's version of Swept Away is "unfortunate." The word that best describes Madonna's attempt to play Amber Leighton is "unfortunate." The word that best describes my decision to see this movie is "unfortun...

A Swingers Weekend, writer/director Jon E. Cohen’s spouse-swapping tale, starts out with a strong sit-com vibe before taking an abrupt turn during the third act into Lifetime TV movie territory. For a movie that wants to explore truths about...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single movie in possession of a good box office fortune must be in want of a sequel. (With apologies to Jane Austen.)There can be little other explanation why, some twenty years after the release of th...

The title of this film, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, is so long that it can function as a plot synopsis in its own right. "The Englishman" in question is British cartographer Reginald Anson, played by Hugh Grant with...

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate is muddled to the point of tedium. The screenplay is credited to four writers, and its unevenness argues that none of them were on the same wavelength. Subplots start but never finish, characters come and go...

Towelhead is a victim of the economics of movie-making. Despite being a critical success at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival (where is played under the name of Nothing Is Private), Towelhead has languished on shelves for a full year. With Warner Br...

There's something compelling, and occasionally profound, about a well-made coming of age story. Perhaps part of the reason is that the experience, although shaded with subtle differences for each individual, is universal. Regardless of race, clas...

The “hook” intended to lure in viewers to Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is the marquee-topping selection of Nicolas Cage as “Nick Cage.” The film gets a lot of mileage (perhaps too much) out of this meta casting....