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OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

July 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

John le Carré writes espionage stories in which the action is cerebral and the suspense comes from a keen observation of each protagonist’s character. Thus, the stakes in OUR KIND OF TRAITOR involve much more than the list of names that will topple those in power. They involve the people caught up in the intrigue… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, British Government, espionage, John le Carré, Marrakech, MI6, spies, unlikely allies

EYE IN THE SKY

March 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

EYE IN THE SKY

As if we needed to be reminded of what a loss Alan Rickman’s death represents to cinema, we have his final speech in Gavin Hood’s incisive consideration of collateral damage and the ethics of warfare, EYE IN THE SKY.

Tagged With: collateral damage, drone pilot, drone warfare, high value target, military surveillance, war on terror

THE STATEMENT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Conspiracy buffs will enjoy THE STATEMENT more than just about any other sort of moviegoer. For the rest of us, this story about a Frenchman who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II fails as the thriller that the filmmakers may have had in mind. It is, rather, more along the lines of a… Read More »

BOBBY JONES, STROKE OF GENIUS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BOBBY JONES, STROKE OF GENIUS is not so much a film as a sermon conceived as a series of lessons designed for moral improvement and delivered by rote by a preacher who long ago exchanged enthusiasm for boredom with the subject matter. It is, I suppose, good for you on some level, in much the… Read More »

THE INVASION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE INVASION

The original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS was the product of a particular time, place, and mentality. Those would be the 50s, the United States, and the paranoia rampant at the time over the Communist Menace.  Or the 50s, the United States, and the suffocation of conformity. Either way, it was a potent message at… Read More »

Tagged With: abused wife, alien invasion, pod peope, psychiatrist, remake, Sci-fi, Washington D.C.

THE TUDORS — THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There is a cautionary lesson within THE TUDORS, the vibrant, lush, and suitably visceral mini-series depicting the life, loves, and politics of England’s Henry VIII. Henry, played with frank carnality by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, fancies himself a humanist, the fashionable thing to be during the Renaissance. Under the tutelage of Thomas More, soon to be… Read More »

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