Nick Prigge

In ‘The Love Punch’, Money Does Buy Happiness

In ‘The Love Punch’, Money Does Buy Happiness

The troubling implicit moral at the end of The Love Punch encapsulates the film's insubstantial construction.
Going ‘Up the Junction’ to Get Down with the Common People

Going ‘Up the Junction’ to Get Down with the Common People

Despite being set in London's Swinging Sixties, Up the Junction comes across just as apropos of America's here and now.
‘Bang! Bang! You’re Dead’ Gives Us a Wry Twist on the Wrong Man Theme

‘Bang! Bang! You’re Dead’ Gives Us a Wry Twist on the Wrong Man Theme

Tony Randall comes across like a star for the little screen overwhelmed by the Big Screen, a Felix Unger-type trying out unsuccessfully for Her Majesty’s Service.
There Are Not Lessons in ‘Tanta Agua’ So Much As Cold Hard Truths

There Are Not Lessons in ‘Tanta Agua’ So Much As Cold Hard Truths

What begins as a vacation from hell transforms into the story of a father attempting to reach into his daughter's world before he loses her.
No One Really Sweats in ‘Swerve’, but They Glisten

No One Really Sweats in ‘Swerve’, but They Glisten

The title of writer/director Craig Lahiff's Swerve is both predictably metaphorical and assertively literal, but the film itself is merely a road to nowhere.