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50 Years, 50 Films – 1950 – 1999

Jul 2, 2020 Wade Sheeler 0

Instead of just listing a clump of movies, I’m only picking one film a year. So ultimately, after 50 days, you’ll have 50 films that (I think at least) are worth your time. I’ll also […]

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Sidney Lumet’s FAIL SAFE Is Anything But

Nov 3, 2015 Nathanael Hood 0

The true terror behind Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (1964) isn’t that things went wrong, it’s that they went right. True, a mechanical error sent the signal for American flight crews to drop nuclear bombs on […]

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President Fonda in Sidney Lumet’s FAIL-SAFE

Aug 11, 2013 The Retro Set 0

Sidney Lumet’s 1964 political thriller Fail-Safe is one of greatest Cold War films to come out of the Cold War era. This bleak, atomic drama is a film on par with Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Dr. […]

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