Daily Archives: July 23, 2023

Movie Review: A Native American woman drives through “The Unknown Country” of her past

Some movies come to you, passing on their insights directly, underlining their message and themes. More challenging films make you come to them. Morissa Maltz’s “The Unknown Country” is a rare example of the latter made even rarer by the … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Debriefing a “classic” that wasn’t —  John le Carré’s “The Looking Glass War” (1969)

By the late 1960s, John le Carré was just coming into his own as the  the new Graham Greene, a sophsticated, subtle “thinking person’s spy novelist.” “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” had shown the former MI5/MI6 insider … Continue reading

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