Drama, Film, Spies, Thriller
Film: Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor is one of his later, perhaps lesser books, but it’s one that really…
July 19, 2016
Drama, Spies, Television, ThrillerTV: Homeland (Season 3)
After a successful inaugural season, Showtime’s Homeland declined in its second year, leaving me to wonder if the series…
July 30, 2015
Drama, Spies, Television, ThrillerTV: Homeland (Season 2)
I called Homeland’s first season a “perfected and distilled” spy drama: a left-handed compliment, in retrospect. It was a…
June 2, 2014
Drama, Spies, Television, ThrillerTV: Homeland (Season 1)
I went into season one of Homeland with extremely high expectations, which is unfortunate, because now that I’ve finished…
October 1, 2012
Drama, History, Non-Fiction, TelevisionTV: Band of Brothers
I used the recent Blu-ray re-release of Band of Brothers (2001) as an excuse to watch the entire run…
February 22, 2009