Three on a Couch is a film that flies any number of directions.
Like Hitchcock, Lewis’s freewheeling, exquisitely diverting films were often undercut by sinister elements and personal neuroses.
The New Danger is more a collage than a collective statement.
With The Patsy, Jerry Lewis is generous enough to give the whole Dream Factory credit for the gags.
With the film, Lewis seems more willing than ever to acknowledge his own hostility toward being dismissed as a kids’ entertainer.
Of all Jerry Lewis’s films, The Nutty Professor may be the closest to achieving an unfussy plea for pathos.
With The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis understands and subverts his own formal omniscience.
em>The Ladies’ Man is a wild, exuberant reflection of Jerry Lewis’s diverse comic tones.
The self-reflectivity of The Errand Boy is so pervasive it truly becomes the content of the film.
The Untouchables is a violent, masculine, swaggering recreation of Al Capone and his bootlegging industry.
Finally, a Brian De Palma movie for guys who watch movies with their dicks and don’t want to be punished for it!
Not one single standard is given a novel twist, and each arrangement seems to have the exact same crescendos and ritardandos.
The album’s closest antecedent is probably the Word Jazz installments of one Ken Nordine.
It’s a loveable bust of a film, and to most children of the 1980s, a dorky reminder of cinematic joys past.
Pressed under the DiviMax banner, the incredibly wan-looking Creepshow 2 is a benefactor of a format that only stresses the limitations of the original product.
Unless you’ve got a soft spot for British anthologies with fine, aged hams, you’re better off buying Kiss Kiss in paperback.
Orca isn’t a cheap thrill, but it sure does seem like it’s in a rush to finish.
Dizzee has learned how to gene-splice his uniquely atonal Manchester sound with a variety of popular beat styles.
Orca tarnishes its own attempts at eco-consciousness in suggesting that whales are interested in a little blood payback.
The Wrong Man is one of Hitchcock’s most affecting tragedies.