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Yes, it describes very important historical events, but the movie is boring as hell. I suspect the bombing scenes are widely inaccurate. Virtually every bomb the Germans drop in the original attack hits a target. Sure, that’s how it was in 1940 with the available technology. And then there are interminable scenes on air with planes shooting at each other and every couple minutes an aircraft catches fire and drops to the ground. Great! This is not a movie, but a primitive video game. Gave up halfway through.

This is truly as close to perfect a crime series can get. Somewhere in the middle of the third season there is a little lag with overwrought psychology, but it recovers and has a strong finish. Very impressive that the writer and the director is one person. The cast is very strong. Cinematography is excellent. Very nice electronic music that stays constant for the duration. Every aspect of the story is presented in the best possible way. I am a physician and I can testify that the scenes during surgery and depiction of different injuries are very realistic. There is attention to every detail. I watch other shows, someone is very sick , he is on a heart monitor that shows heart rate of 70! Not here. With the exception of some secondary characters pretty much every person has some flaw, but they are not presented hysterically. The protagonists are a female police superintendent who is sent from England to Northern Ireland to assist with a series of vicious murders of young women and the young male psychologist who is the serial killer. We know right away who the criminal is. The story is whether the police will be able to discover that the young married professional has a dark side. Strongly recommended.

It is quite an achievement to make a boring movie featuring the late Sydne Rome at the peak of her beauty and in various states of undress, but Polanski did not disappoint. This is supposed to have some type of high brow allegory about art and life. The owner of the mansion where the events take place succumbs to the view of Ms Rome’s sex (off screen), but the audience is not that lucky. If someone persists until the end there is a clever finale. Polanski did many great movies but this is not one of them.

I will disagree with the enthusiastic reviews of this film. Yes, the Nazis were bad, but that fact doesn’t make any Holocaust related movie an automatic masterpiece. From the first scenes the director very obviously trying to pull our strings. The teddy bear on the ground for example. Realistic details would not hurt either. Nazis were known to follow rules to the letter. But we are shown a SS officer who as he loads Jews to the train that would deliver them to the concentration camp, he is swinging from a flask of liquor, like a private eye from a fifties movie. Nazis bad, bad movies about Nazis, also bad.

An enterprising young man is a serial bigamist with benefits. The newer wives are quickly dispatched after they buy life insurance or adjust their wills. Solid entertainment with a little surprise in the end. The gory stuff happen off screen. Limited nudity and essentially no sex.

A fantastic neonoir with appropriate color photography and great acting by all the protagonists. There is the farm boy who comes to the big city to shoot dice and meets an attractive good girl who is a single mother and a married glamorous bad girl who has the potential to totally derail him. In the end he chooses the right path. To avoid any confusion, in cinematic geography The Big Town is Chicago, whereas The Town is Boston.

I had no idea that David Mamet authored an adventure movie. It is watchable, with decent cinematography. The bear is a star!

Despite not being considered one of Frankenheimer’s best movies, this is worth seeing. A story of a middle aged man, a married law officer no less, who loses his moorings when he develops an ill advised attraction to a redneck lolita. Tuesday Weld, who plays successfully the female lead was actually in her thirties, but looks like she would have been carded in bars for another ten years. Features the famous Johnny Cash song and some other, less successful. Gregory Peck is convincing as the perplexed sheriff and in the end he does get shot. The supporting actors are all very good. Not a whole lot of family values here. The family of the girl do not object to her relationship with the much older man, because they expect he will turn a blind eye to their moonshine operation.

I am a sucker for art films. I have watched pretty much everything by Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos. The work here has nice photography that refers to old paintings, but it is excruciatingly slow. I could not finish it.

Actually this is a very good movie. Some of the professional critics rejected it on the basis that it doesn’t describe accurately the experiences of a gigolo. I am not sure if they explained how they developed expertise on the subject. The cast is first class and this is not a vain project for Mick Jagger who plays the owner of an escort service for affluent women. Andy Garcia is a failed novelist who has a small office in the same building. When his second manuscript fails to find a publisher he is convinced to try something completely different. He is married however with a young child, and when his secret source of income is revealed he loses his family. But in the process he accumulates enough experiences to write a second book that is well received. Despite the subject, there is essentially no nudity or sex scenes. Strongly recommended.