Drama, Film, Spies
Film: A Most Wanted Man
When I first heard Philip Seymour Hoffman would be starring in a movie adaptation of a John le Carré…
July 28, 2014-
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Drama, FilmFilm: The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson strikes me as one of those Hollywood auteurs whose early successes led to lack of mitigation…
March 25, 2013 -
Drama, FilmFilm: The Ides of March
A political drama based on a play, The Ides of March (2011) delivers just about what you would expect…
July 30, 2012 -
Film, Spies, ThrillerFilm: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Ever since the horror of the second installment, I’ve been looking for reasons to stop watching the Mission: Impossible…
January 4, 2012 -
Drama, Film, Spies, Spy 100 ProjectSpy 100, #68: Charlie Wilson’s War
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) is a curious film, an Aaron Sorkin script largely populated by non-Sorkin-ish actors (with apologies…
August 9, 2010 -
Drama, Fantasy, FilmFilm: Synecdoche, New York
I caught up with Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (2008) over the weekend. It’s one of those movies I’m…
April 13, 2009