Nobody would ever accuse Tom Cruise of being a comedian, let alone the best thing in a comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jnr and Steve Coogan. Okay, Coogan wasn’t at his best, but the others put in fine comedic turns in Tropic Thunder. Cruise’s ‘playa’ was a fat, bald, foul-mouthed movie tyrant […]

Before Antonio Banderas became a Hollywood superstar he worked in Spain with its greatest living director, Pedro Almodóvar. Now the duo have teamed up for the first time in over twenty years to present a horror flick called The Skin I Live In. This baroque psycho-shocker is certainly a change of pace for the pair […]

An old English teacher of mine went to school with Clive Barker and he let everybody know it: every single class. Barker is a strange talent. Ostensibly a writer, he has worked very closely in film down the years, beginning with his classic Hellraiser film. For his second effort, he got the “studio interference” treatment […]