Drama, Film, History, Spies, World War II
Film: Operation Mincemeat
Back during the Spy 100 Project I rather enjoyed the staid spy film The Man Who Never Was, which…
July 4, 2022-
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Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, World War IINovel: Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi
When it comes to “big idea” specfic, Hannu Rajaniemi is one of the best in the business. In his…
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Drama, Film, HistoryFilm: Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven is nothing if not a provocateur, and Benedetta (2021) is the latest example, an extravagant, explicit tale of…
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Comedy, History, TelevisionTV: The Great (Seasons 1-2)
Hulu’s astonishingly good dark comedy The Great is about (er, sort of) the rise of Catherine the Great and…
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Film, History, SpiesTV: Glória (Season 1)
Normally I would say reaching the end of a TV season only to have a “what was the point?”…
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Drama, Film, History, ThrillerFilm: All the President’s Men
The third film in Alan J. Pakula’s “Paranoia Trilogy,” All the President’s Men (1976), may be the best of…
December 29, 2021 -
Drama, Film, HistoryFilm: Judas and the Black Messiah
The fact that American film and television is just now starting to chisel away at America’s racist history is…
December 23, 2021 -
Drama, History, TelevisionTV: Generation Kill
Given that David Simon is one of TV’s most important auteurs, not to mention a personal favorite, it has…
December 10, 2021 -
Film, History, Spies, ThrillerFilm: Kill the Messenger
The fact that I’m still pondering the historical veracity of Kill the Messenger (2014) is a good sign that…
November 28, 2021 -
Drama, Film, History, Spies, World War IIFilm: The Forgotten Battle
Movie based on actual events can be tricky beasts to wrangle, but The Forgotten Battle (2020) is a solid…
October 24, 2021 -
Drama, History, TelevisionTV: The Trial of Christine Keeler
Before diving into this miniseries, I had never heard of the Profumo Affair, an early-sixties British political scandal involving…
October 17, 2021 -
Film, History, SpiesFilm: The Courier
Based on true events, The Courier (2020) isn’t an overwhelmingly successful dramatization of history, but it’s less prone to…
October 17, 2021 -
Drama, Film, History, SpiesFilm: Wasp Network
If interesting stories don’t necessarily make for good films, a case in point might be Wasp Network (2019), which…
October 8, 2021 -
History, Mystery, Television, World War IITV: The Defeated (Season 1)
I had rather a middling reaction to Netflix’s The Defeated, an attractive international production that lands somewhere between high…
October 5, 2021 -
Drama, History, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: The Plot Against America
David Simon is one of the truly great auteurs of modern television, but I was a little surprised to…
September 16, 2021