Night falls on Warsaw and a woman lays murdered, stabbed to death 100 times in a crumbling apartment building. The only witness refuses to testify about what he had seen. But when the Gestapo line […]
Isn’t Michael Redgrave simply marvelous? No matter the role, Michael Redgrave brings a sort of respectability and class; he commands the screen. Take his brief performance as the unnamed, mysterious uncle in Jack Clayton’s The […]
Gaslighting: The idea that a person will eventually become convinced of something through conditioning by an individual in a position of power and influence, despite being in direct opposition to what the person knows and […]
Much has happened quickly over the last four months. Progressives decry the end of Democracy as we know it, just as the other side celebrates the dismantling of our government and the disintegration of our supposed “core […]
Directed and co-written by Colin Higgins, the writer behind Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, 9 to 5 is a cult comedy in which the political edges are dulled by a cartoonish plot. However, it might […]
There’s a certain wryness that comes with putting Sean Connery in a spy film, let alone Connery agreeing to be in one, anytime post his James Bond career. But 1990’s The Russia House, based on […]
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