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Tag Archives: Cold War
Mayday
I’m taking actual time to suggest that you say yourself nearly two hours and skip Mayday, the latest Amazon offering that went right to streaming. I could write a great deal about how it should be called Meh-day, or simply … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films
Tagged Belfast, cinema, Cockney, Cold War, Dick Van Dyke, film, Hamlet, Henry V, horror, Kennth Branagh, Mary Poppins, Mayday, movies, My Week with Marilyn, reviews, Russia, Russian, Ryan Reynolds, Swan Song
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
In the wake of the death of the legendary Angela Lansbury, I thought I’d take another look at her third Oscar-nominated performance in the 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate. It’s a film that disappeared for a while, so it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged Angela Lansbury, Beauty and the Beast, Blow-Out, Blow-Up, China, Cold War, Edgar Wright, Frank Sinatra, Gaslight, James Brooks, John Frankenheimer, Joss Whedon, Laurence Harvey, Marathon Man, Murder She Wrote, Patty Duke, political thriller, Psycho, Ridley Scott, Robert Altman, Sidley Lumet, Soviet Union, The Conversation, The Manchurian Candidate, The Miracle Worker, The Parallax View, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Bridge of Spies
The newest Spielberg film is out, and while it’s second-level Spielberg, that means it’s only better than 95 percent of what else is out there. Bridge of Spies is based on the true story of an American lawyer’s defense of … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films
Tagged Amistad, Amy Ryan, Bridge of Spies, Catch Me If You Can, Cold War, Gary Powers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Janusz Kaminski, Jimmy Stewart, Lincoln, Mark Rylance, Minority Report, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Munich, Oscar Schindler, Rudolph Abel, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, The BFG, The Terminal, Thomas Cromwell, War Horse, War of the Worlds, Wolf Hall
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