Reds (1981)
Look up Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981) in just about any guidebook to movies and somewhere in the review you’ll find the word “epic.” This undoubtedly has something to do with the film’s almost three-and-a-half-hour running time. An understandable error. How could you not call a 200-minute movie that spans five years, two continents, and one […]
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
I am really sorry about this. I mean it. You see, I just didn’t know. It was only after I’d done the notes for this month’s film that I heard from a friend that there were people out there hoping I’d pick some great comedies to write about during the long winter months. Oops. Maybe […]
Let Him Have It (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCSvfRrleM I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. —Stevie Smith In 1953, in London, England, a young man named Derek Bentley was hanged for the crime of being an accomplice in the murder of a policeman. Bentley had an IQ pf 66 and a mental age of 11. […]