Quicksand (2003)

When writing these movie blog posts, I sometimes have to take a stab in the dark at a movie's year of release until I have a chance to look it up later and after finishing "Quicksand" - a title that lured me in with the promise of Hitchcockian thrills and a synopsis that did the same (a guy falsely accused of murder goes on the run in Monte Carlo) - I took a punt that it was from 1983 and still find it hard to believe what I watched - straight-to-video nonsense with 80s tv-series production values, ludicrous plotting, and surely Michael Keaton and Michael Caine's career-worst performances - was actually released twenty years later than I'd assumed, in 2003.

★★☆☆☆

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The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

This Bill Murray comedy, modelled after the spy farces of the sixties, has lots in common with Austin Powers and nothing at all to do with the Hitchcock movies "The Man Who Knew Too Much", with Murray, as droll as always and especially funny doing a traditional Russian folk dance towards the end of the movie, playing an American in London who thinks himself a participant in a theatre sport event, not realising he is in fact embroiled in a political assassination plot.

★★★☆☆

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