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Dahmer (2002) is, at first glance, a fairly run-of-the-mill bad guy biopic, tracing the exploits of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer from late teenagerhood to just before his arrest, for a smorgasbord of crimes, at age 31. Jumping back and forth between the past and the present, the film fills in Dahmer’s personal history through frequent flashbacks, and paints a picture of him that turns out to be surprisingly—almost uncomfortably—compassionate. However, the flashbacks give the film a disjointed quality that makes it less effective as a thriller (or a horror film) than many of the more infamous serial-killer epics, such as those comprising the Silence of the Lambs oeuvre.

The most interesting performance in The Man Who Knew Too Much was given by Peter Lorre. Lorre had just escaped Nazi Germany and did not speak English at the time. He learned his lines phonetically and was able to display his trademark sinister persona in a language he did not know.

What do the movie Casablanca and the cartoon character Pepe Le Pew have in common? No, this is not a trick question. They were both influenced by Algiers. Pepe Le Pew is the amorous deep voiced skunk who is based on Pepe Le Moko, played by Charles Boyer in Algiers. The dark, smoldering Gallic lover is certainly more suave than the skunk.

If you were looking for a strong woman from the Twentieth Century, Hedy Lamarr was your gal. Held prisoner by her spouse in a castle, she escaped husband and native Austria by convincing him to allow her to attend a party with all of her valuable jewelry. With the help of the maid, her husband was drugged and she escaped the country with some assets, not the least of which was her mind.

In “Brooklyn Rules,” Michael (Freddie Prinze Jr.) narrates the bildungsroman of three best friends as they grow up in the New York district during the late 1970’s and 1980’s and up through John Gotti’s mob war. Michael is a bit of a scam artist, while Bobby (Jerry Ferrara) is a cheapskate “idiot savant” whose savvy includes bartering for a better deal, and Carmine (Scott Caan) is the one whose idolatry is the local mob boss, Caesar (the underused Alec Baldwin).

In A Matter of Taste (French, Une affaire de goût) Frédéric Delamont (Bernard Giraudeau) is a cool customer. Cool is not the word. He is cold, as in coldly calculating. This does not mean he is a cold fish. He can be affable and certainly charms the man he hires as his food taster. Nicolas Rivière (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a nobody with excellent taste in food, if little else, and he is hired to insure Delamont is less offended than poisoned.