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.

The Cider House Rules (1999): review- 2/10

In Maine: an orphanage, an abortionist and his assistant. The assistant decides to leave the orphange to "make himelf useful": he picks apples.

This is a dawdling, pretentious film that fails to deal with the issues it raises about abortion and identity.

It is also extremely boring.

Pleasantvile (1998): review- 9/10

A boy and his sister are magically transported from the 1990s into a TV soap from 1958 where they question the orthodoxies of the time.

An intelligent film that challenges sweetly, with excellent acting and beautiful art direction.