
Film: Operation Mincemeat
Back during the Spy 100 Project I rather enjoyed the staid spy film The Man Who Never Was, which…
July 4, 2022Back during the Spy 100 Project I rather enjoyed the staid spy film The Man Who Never Was, which…
July 4, 2022When it comes to “big idea” specfic, Hannu Rajaniemi is one of the best in the business. In his…
April 17, 2022Paul Verhoeven is nothing if not a provocateur, and Benedetta (2021) is the latest example, an extravagant, explicit tale of…
April 4, 2022Hulu’s astonishingly good dark comedy The Great is about (er, sort of) the rise of Catherine the Great and…
March 7, 2022Normally I would say reaching the end of a TV season only to have a “what was the point?”…
March 1, 2022The third film in Alan J. Pakula’s “Paranoia Trilogy,” All the President’s Men (1976), may be the best of…
December 29, 2021The fact that American film and television is just now starting to chisel away at America’s racist history is…
December 23, 2021Given that David Simon is one of TV’s most important auteurs, not to mention a personal favorite, it has…
December 10, 2021The fact that I’m still pondering the historical veracity of Kill the Messenger (2014) is a good sign that…
November 28, 2021Movie based on actual events can be tricky beasts to wrangle, but The Forgotten Battle (2020) is a solid…
October 24, 2021Before diving into this miniseries, I had never heard of the Profumo Affair, an early-sixties British political scandal involving…
October 17, 2021Based on true events, The Courier (2020) isn’t an overwhelmingly successful dramatization of history, but it’s less prone to…
October 17, 2021If interesting stories don’t necessarily make for good films, a case in point might be Wasp Network (2019), which…
October 8, 2021I had rather a middling reaction to Netflix’s The Defeated, an attractive international production that lands somewhere between high…
October 5, 2021David Simon is one of the truly great auteurs of modern television, but I was a little surprised to…
September 16, 2021