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Classic Film Review: A Theatrical Cold War Anecdote turned TV Bon Bon — “An Englishman Abroad”
An actress on tour with “Hamlet” is “recruited” by Britain’s most notorious spy in 1950s Moscow in “An Englishman Abroad,” a delightfully droll tragi-comedy from the writer who gave us “The Madness of King George,” “The Lady in the Van” … Continue reading
Have you donated to Wikipedia this year?
Wikipedia, the secondary/overview font of much of the “knowledge” available on the Internet, is 24 years old this year. Growing pains and legitimate complaints lodged against its “crowdsourced” biographies, histories, science and facts in its early years notwithstanding, it’s endured … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: A Son Hunts for the WWII Pilot Father he Barely Knew beyond “The Green Box: At the Heart of War”
As World War II fades into history and the numbers of those who lived through it and can bear witness about it decline by the hour, the lessons of that era seem doomed to be forgotten. Generations have grown up … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Entrancing “Trains” is a History of Europe through its Rails and Rolling Stock
“Trains,” the new dialogue-free “found footage” documentary by the Polish filmmaker Maciej Drygas, is one of the most original pieces of movie-making you’re likely to run across. Drygas tells a history of Europe through the first half of the 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary-review, europe, history, railroad, the-holocaust, trains, travel, world-war-i
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Movie Review — “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale”
Lady Mary makes one more most-unladylike sexual mistake, “Mum-MAH” dishes up one more serving of proto-feminist American common sense and one last “season” in London town is experienced for “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” of the highbrow British/PBS soap opera … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: The Psychology of “Ordinary Men” who carried out “The Forgotten Holocaust”
It can’t be a coincidence that Netflix chose this moment in time to stream the 2022 German TV doc “Ganz normale Männer – Der ‘vergessene Holocaust,’” “Ordinary Men: The Forgotten Holocaust.” The Internet is overrun with videos of masked goons … Continue reading
Documentary Review: Archaeologist Could Rewrite American Prehistory if he saves an Ancient Site from his Fellow Texans — “The Stones Are Speaking”
Anyone with just a passing appreciation of American archaeology has heard of a Clovis point or stone tool. That’s an ancient spear point dating from a people and an era that for generations has been considered “The First Americans,” arriving … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: MGM’s Blunt, if Belated Warning about Fascism — “The Mortal Storm”
The first time I pondered the “coincidence” of a classic film turning up on my TV at a particular moment in history was coming home from school in the ’70s and seeing the Cold War era gem “Seven Days in … Continue reading
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Tagged borzage, classic-film-review, fascism, film, history, mgm, politics, the-mortal-storm, trumpism
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Classic Film Review: “The Return of Martin Guerre,” the Original “Deep Fake”(1982)
Before he became the French poster boy for “sexual predator,” Gerard Depardieu was the unlikeliest screen sex symbol of his era. Burly to the point of huge, played a soulful “Cyrano” and took on Jean Valjean in a TV version … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film-review, depardieu, history, martin-guerre, movie-review, movies
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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”
A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading
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