'Vile Bodies,' a Little Lost in Translation
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Stephen Fry's new movie "Bright Young Things" is almost an homage to Evelyn Waugh Â so careful and respectful that at times it loses sight of Waugh's snarling anarchic spirit.
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John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. âKlimtâ adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.
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âThe Decomposition of the Soulâ tackles the unsettling topic of the East German Stasi in a way that might make your flesh crawl.
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Well-acted, beautifully shot and broad and personal, âThe Motorcycle Diariesâ is nonetheless undermined in the end by a clunky search for meaning and depth that seems
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The enduring theme of William Friedkinâs 1980 film âCruisingâ is the reality of evil and its uncomfortable proximity to sex.
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A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, âThe Bothersome Manâ unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.
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A critic&#39;s reaction to a  film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men  who all touch an elephant and report wildly different  descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the  particular body part encountered.
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With its jerky camerawork and gritty texture, the British film âLondon to Brightonâ tries awfully hard to pass itself off as a slab of rancid naturalism.
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The bill reads like a logical pairing: dark lyrics, creepy images, metal mentality.
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Well, somehow they did in the first adaptation of the videogame âResident Evil.â All was loud, gory and yet somehow flat. All is certainly loud and gory in the sequel
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Leos Janacek has entered the opera mainstream in recent decades, but this Czech composerâs final and darkest opera, âFrom the House of the Dead,â has been largely overlooked, perhaps understandably.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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The documentary âBeyond Hatredâ is an example of a film whose style doesnât merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings.
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Inspired by the notorious 1928 pornographic novel by Georges Bataille, this is a strange, beautiful, disturbing and at times literally painful work.
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His new film promises a kind of rueful elegance, says Richard Schickel. But it's summertime, and the living is vulgar
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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Since the K5 Emperor of Icecream, eavier, foisted the augean task of ghetto-reviewing onto my skinny shoulders this year, here goes. First, we begin with the grimy w/hole itself, and then move to the individual rotting parts thereof. The obvious changes to the ghetto landscape were: trhurler didn't come back from his hike, MichaelCrawford started giving it away, my kuron brethren were badly trolled by a xanax-popping dysfunctional alcoholic), both Egil and insomnyuk decided to suicidomize themselfs, NIWS/Spellcheckbot attacked (again), and rusty took apart his bathroom and added walls to K5.   Rotting parts inside: