Shoot the Glass

As with many other movies in the last ten years or so, Amores Perros is told in a non-linear fashion, with multiple intertwining story lines. Three stories are told in all, and they are connected through a horrific car crash. The movie is set in Mexico City.
Octavio (Gael García Bernal) is trying to make enough [...]

For some reason, this second movie in Leone’s “dollars” trilogy was the only one I hadn’t seen. Well, calling it a trilogy is really something of a misnomer, since the three are only loosely connected. And using “the man with no name” is not really correct either, since Clint Eastwood’s characters do have names (or [...]

Three weeks ago, I had no idea who Henri-Georges Clouzot was. Now, I’ve seen two of his movies and both are masterpieces. He made this right after Le Salaire de la Peur (read my review), yet it’s an entirely different kind of movie.
Unlike Le Salaire de la Peur, very little time is spent setting up [...]

Ace in the Hole is a less well-known movie by Billy Wilder, which was a complete flop at the box office when it opened in 1951.
Kirk Douglas plays Charlie Tatum, a former big city reporter, who is something of a trouble-maker and keeps getting fired from all the big papers for various reasons. He ends [...]

Sidney Lumet is one of my very favourite directors. All movies of his that I’ve seen have been excellent, not a stinker among them. He has range, too. He has covered just about every genre there is, and he’s a master at his craft.
Here we have a movie based on true events. Al Pacino is [...]