Michael Lerner

Reflections of Murder (1974)

Reflections of Murder (1974)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 26, 2013Les Diaboliques Remake
This tv movie was the first English-language remake of the classic French thriller Les Diaboliques. It follows the original closely and still works effectively, although being shot in colour rather than black-and-white lacks the stark tension. Sam Waterston gives a performance of amazing cruelty as the husband
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Barton Fink (1991)

Barton Fink (1991)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 26, 2000Writer's Block/Paranoia Black Comedy
Hollywood noir from the Coen Brothers, this takes us inside the crumbling mental state of a screenwriter in the 1930s. Like a David Lynch remake of Day of the Locust, this comes rich in the Coens' black uncomfortable humour
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Godzilla (1998)

Godzilla (1998)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 16, 1999Giant Atomic Monster
Much disliked English-language version of Godzilla from Roland Emmerich is a more watchable film than one might think. Emmerich does well when the film allows him to do what he does best - being a big, budget, massively scaled epic of mass destruction
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Atlas Shrugged (2011)

Atlas Shrugged (2011)
Rating: ★★
Dec 15, 2011Libertarian Political Fantasy/Ayn Rand Adaptation
The first in a three part film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel that makes a heavy-handed and frequently tub-thumping argument for the virtues of selfishness and despisal of any rules of fairness
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