Come for the promise of a stylish New Hollywood fairytale, stay for a heavily-accented Orson Welles taunting an orangutan in-between magic tricks. This seems to be the premise behind Henry Jaglom’s A Safe Place, a film that is quite remarkable in precisely how misguided it actually finds itself being, despite all the promise it had…

There was a time when Woody Allen wasn’t making incredibly safe, often innocuous films about self-centred romantics hoping to find some meaning in worlds they don’t understand, but rather capable of telling stories that were edgy, subversive and even a bit controversial at times, and indicative of a filmmaker who was intent on satirizing anyone…

It’s unfortunate that Born Yesterday doesn’t get enough of the love it deserves. It is decently acclaimed and has many ardent admirers, but it has often struggled to be seen as anything other than just an effective comedy hailing from the mind of George Cukor, who was never really able to reach the same heights…

Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) is a young woman slowly growing tired of her overprotective parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), who do everything they can to control the life of their daughter. Jeannie, wanting to explore the world and learn about life, runs away from home and sets off on her own adventure….

Eddie Murphy is back, and he’s better than ever, if Dolemite Is My Name is anything to go by. His return to form has been something so many of us have so eagerly anticipated, and he made sure not to disappoint us, giving us one of his very best performances to date, and one that…

There are many words that you can use to describe The Laundromat. You could call it a disaster, a misguided attempt at intelligent satire or just a trainwreck in general. You could write extensive essays on how this film tries so hard with nothing less than diminishing returns. However, the best way to describe this…

Independent comedies normally tend to be very much hit-and-miss, but they normally err towards being relatively entertaining, even when they aren’t all that original. As someone who rarely encounters a quirky comedy I didn’t like, it takes a lot for me to be disappointed with a film that tries to deviate from mainstream comedy –…

When it comes to being rich without any effort, no one is better than Henry Graham (Walter Matthau), a very wealthy man who has never worked a day in his life, living off his vast inheritance and wasting his fortune through his excessive tendencies. However, this can’t go on for much longer, as he soon…

Late Night is a dreadfully derivative and perfectly pleasant experience, a film that may be composed of commonplace fluff with a few good ideas scattered here and there for good measure, but one that doesn’t necessarily leave much of an imprint, other than through being just a diversion from more serious matters. However, what Late…

Cinema doesn’t always need to say something – there doesn’t need to be some underlying message that occurs in every frame of a scene. Sometimes, a film is just allowed to exist. No one understands this more than Lynn Shelton, whose work has been the very definition of independent cinema. Not only does she make…