De Sade is a flawed yet fascinating attempt to penetrate into the headspace of the Marquis de Sade.
You can’t cut the ham from the bones of either of these films.
Family Plot may be Hitchcock’s official swan song, but the nasty, nasty Frenzy is the real last hurrah.
With a very strong cast and sharp dialogue by Anthony Shaffer, Frenzy is easily the strongest of the master’s final works.
Both Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend are so committed to their roles that their friendship in the film almost seems credible.
Pity Christian Bale for having had to lose so much weight for so little.
Brad Anderson’s atmospheric but shallow The Machinist comes with a powerful special effect: Christian Bale.
Unless you’ve got a soft spot for British anthologies with fine, aged hams, you’re better off buying Kiss Kiss in paperback.
Its otherwise potent historical discourse is rendered mute by the slightness of LaBute’s romantic and theoretical breath.
It might just confuse cinephiles who believe that Pearl Harbor by a foreign name must smell sweeter.