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[See “Entry from July 22, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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It would be presumptuous of me to review Return With Honor, a documentary directed by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, who also co-wrote it with Christine Z. Wiser. Both the writing and the direction are quite unobtrusive, and the picture consists almost entirely of interviews with American prisoners of war, most of them Navy…
So now I guess it’s official. After Analyze This, Mickey Blue Eyes, The Sopranos and other recent fictional treatments of the Mafia, along comes Michael Dinner’s The Crew to confirm that, so far from being the frightening organized crime syndicate we used to think it was, the mob is now to be considered as just…
Amazing! An old-fashioned drama of honor and faith and romance and swordplay not intended to send these things up.
The influence of Quentin Tarantino continues to exert its baleful effect on lesser film-makers more than a decade after Pulp Fiction
Face/Off by John Woo offers what is perhaps the most preposterous plot ever for an action movie, and that is saying something. Most postmodern action thrillers—see, for instance, Speed 2 and Con Air—aspire to nothing higher than nudging you in the ribs from time to time to remind you that you are watching a movie….
A period piece from the great days of the nouvelle vague and imitation French noir. You should get a kick out of it.
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