My Cousin Vinny (1992): review- 9/10

9/10

Two boys are wrongly acccused of a murder in Alabama: they hire inexperienced New York lawyer Pesci to clear their name. He drives down there with his girlfriend.

Very funny farce mainly about the culture clash between working class Italian-New Yorkers and Alabamans, and the relationship between Pesci and his girlfriend, both whom perform excellently.

Manufacturing Consent (1992): review- 6/10

A documentary that traces (very sympathetically) Noam Chomsky's political work, largely through old footage of TV and radio interviews and lectures.

Chomsky believes the mass media are being controlled, albeit indirectly, by the powers that be which he considers fundamentally malign; he visits an alternative, cooperative publishing firm and some independent radio stations to show alternatives.

The film seems dated, given the explosive effect on conventional media outlets of internet, and could happily be cut by at least 40 minutes.

Single White Female (1992): review- 5/10

A lesbian psychopath moves in to share a New York apartment with a female computer programmer who has just separated from her fiancee.

The film begins excellently, and is beautifully shot with a wonderful score.

But it has too few ideas to support its length, and thus becomes wearisome.

The Adjuster (1992): review-2/10

Interminable drama that suffers from a mistaken sense of its own profundity.

Noah is an insurance inspector while his wife works as a censor for the Canadian board of films, classifying pornography. They live in an uncompleted suburban development. She has warts on the soles of her feet. He helps people assessing their insurace claims, putting them up in a motel.

Meandering, obscure and plotless, it's hard to see who this film is intended for.