History, Mystery, Television, World War II
TV: 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-
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Film, HistoryFilm: Never Look Away
I didn’t find Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away (2018) as powerful a film as his earlier The…
January 3, 2021 -
Drama, Film, Spies, Spy 100 ProjectSpy 100, #9: The Lives of Others
In my view, the quietly devastating The Lives of Others (2006) is right up there with other classic films…
November 24, 2014 -
Film, Spies, Spy 100 Project, Thriller, World War IISpy 100, #28: Black Book
Black Book (2006) is one of the first films I saw in the theater after moving to Los Angeles,…
May 13, 2012