A French crime thriller that is D.O.A. despite a cast that includes Alain Delon, Jean Gabin and a young Gerard Depardieu.
A stiff, awkward and totally lifeless film, I've never seen a more bored-looking Jean Gabin. I can imagine him wishing that he was at home playing with his grandkids instead of appearing in this.
A tonally bizarre English-language Romanian film which is seemingly made for children despite having a very unchild-like narrative. The story is childishly simplified and told through the eyes of a young boy.
Set in France during the German occupation, a Nazi is found with his throat slit. The Nazi's declare that the killer must be handed over or else ten prominent citizens in the village will be executed.
Since no one knows who the killer is (viewers included), the town…
It's a glorious revival of the once popular (and apparently completely forgotten) sketch comedy films such as The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, Tunnelvision, Can I Do It 'Til I Need Glasses?, etc. Yes, it's silly and stupid, rude and crude with absolutely no pretensions of high art or sophistication and I loved every minute of it (and apparently so did the audience I saw this with). As to be expected, it's a mixed bag of sketches to be sure,…
A film with a non-existent script that is stitched together with nothing but 'moments' of the most clumsily sledgehammered shameless pieces of dumb audience manipulation, the likes of which I haven't seen since the days of early-Spielberg.
Peele has obviously seen CLOSE ENCOUNTERS a few too many times, but even Spielberg would be embarrassed by this one!!
Only plus for me was seeing Terry Notary (THE SQUARE) turning in another of his fantastic ape performances as Gordy, despite this having…
