While an interview of Serbian-born Stanislav Stanojević that is included on the DVD of his French film Le journal d’un suicidé suggests he is a maddening bore, his film is anything but that; it is charming, absorbing, beguiling, intriguingly elusive. It also alternates between color and black and (mostly) white.      On a Mediterranean cruise a […]

Easily one of the ten worst movies ever, Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is a thirty- or forty-minute short film stretched thin to a numbing 142-minute length in order to cram in as much sadism and cruelty—aimed at us—and slick, sentimental nonsense that a prison melodrama can hold. This piece of trash is based on […]