Films: July 14 - 20

Heads Of State (2025) 
The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) 
The Naked Gun (1988) 
Lou (2022) 
Overdose (2022) 
My Love Will Make You Disappear (2025) 
Grand Prix (1967) 
Heretic (2024) 
A Working Man (2025)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) 
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) ///

Heads Of State (2025) Broad visual and verbal comedy takes appealing aim at geopolitical tensions through bickering leads, movie star turned U.S. president John Cena and army vet UK prime minister Idris Elba. Revenge plot and conspiracy threat add to fanciful action and final international solidarity.


The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977) Breezy pastiche features catalogue of visual and verbal gags as identical twins clueless Marty Feldman and heroic Michael York join foreign legion with voracious Ann-Margret chasing family diamond. Fine cast, inventive energy, plenty of silliness.


The Naked Gun (1988) Free wheeling barrage of jokes throws assuredly inept detective Leslie Nielsen into delightfully nonsensical series of set pieces involving devious Ricardo Montalbán's plot to assassinate the Queen. Unfiltered pacing ensures absurdity hits home with enthusiastic conviction.


Lou (2022) Tight, atmospheric setup sends brutal, no-nonsense Allison Janney into storm-ravaged wilds with desperate mother Jurnee Smollett whose young son has been kidnapped by increasingly unhinged father Logan Marshall-Green. Unfortunately, melodramatic twist undermines rather than enhances emotional substance as thrills simmer.


Overdose (2022) Slickly assembled crime thriller brings together tense Parisienne cop Assaad Bouab and edgy Toulouse colleague Sofia Essaïdi as investigations into teen murders and drug smuggling from Spain entwine. Shifting perspective with violent gang diffuses intensity though action remains tight.


My Love Will Make You Disappear (2025) Seductively conceived and engagingly played, generous Kim Chiu's family curse causes prospective partners to disappear while financially desperate Paulo Avelino needs to vanish. Broad humor, involved emotion, and social drama reach to romance in polished production.


Grand Prix (1966) Solidly crafted production makes vigorous use of European locations and pummels audience with visceral racing action, visuals at once exhilarating and dream-like. Human melodrama featuring attractive international cast less able to maintain narrative interest.


Heretic (2024) Unease gradually permeates visit of missionaries, careful Sophie Thatcher and eager Chloe East, to remote home of welcoming Hugh Grant, whose questions of faith rapidly become more intense. Themes of religious and personal control resolved with richly atmospheric fear.





A Working Man (2025) Bludgeoning thriller reveals resolute construction foreman and single parent Jason Statham is ex-British marine who puts violent expertise to brutal use in search for boss' kidnapped daughter Arianna Rivas. Garish design and improbable action veers towards parody.


Bringing Up Baby (1938) Unfiltered heiress Katherine Hepburn and stumbling paleontologist Cary Grant perfectly matched for gorgeously constructed and staged comic mayhem, featuring leopards, a priceless dinosaur bone and chaotic romance. Committed cast keep energy levels high to deliver joyous fusion of verbal and visual jokes.


The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Faced with corruptive, enveloping atmosphere, compulsive Gene Tierney is drawn into Ona Munson's decadent web, narrative drive largely set aside until melodramatic final manipulation and twists. Enticing design and mischievous characters, yet staging and tone only fitfully convince.


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Films: July 14 - 20

Heads Of State  (2025)  The Last Remake Of Beau Geste (1977)  The Naked Gun (1988)  Lou (2022)  Overdose (2022)  My Love Will Make You Dis...