Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998): review: 2/10

A journalist and a lawyer drive to Las Vegas where they stay in a hotel which is hosting a police conference.

Other people's drug experiences are never interesting or funny: this film spends spends two hours hammering this point home.

Prozac Nation (2001): review: 1.5/10

A clever girl wins a place at Harvard to do journalism.

Unfortunately, her mother irritates her and her parents divorced many years before: these things have somehow made her into a narcissitic little worm, given to depression.

The film illustrates the commonplace that the central character to a film, however wicked, has to have some redeeming characteristics- even Hannibal, in Silence of the Lambs has charisma, wit and a definate sense of style- or the viewer will rapidly lose interest

The Wurtzel character here is merely a capable scribbler- this isn't enough to compensate for her being quite so boring and brattish, and I couldn't get beyond the first half of this one

Sleepy Hollow (1999): review- 6/10

For some reason the film-makers traduced themselves.

The film starts off elegantly and wittily and both Depp and Ricci are enchanting, and there are some potentially interesting themes introduced about the limits of reason.

But the film then declines into a fomulaic action piece (albeit with gothic trappings) following obvious Hollywood conventions and becomes tedious.

The art direction is stunning. Alas, there is a cartoonishness about the film that seems very American to me.

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