Review: “Napoleon” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby
Ridley Scott turned the story of Napoleon Bonaparte into a big budget epic; how does…
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Review: “Gone Girl” starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike
Some films are meant to be taken at face value: a car chase is a…
Review: “Skyfall” starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem
[AMAZONPRODUCT=B006X040NY] I thought that James Bond had turned a page. Both of Daniel Craig’s initial…
Review: “American Pie: Reunion” starring Eugene Levy and Jason Biggs
The first episode of Michael Palin’s “Ripping Yarns” began with a quote from G. K.…
Review: “The Jonathan Meades Collection”
[AMAZONPRODUCT=B001110H14] I was introduced to the works of Jonathan Meades a few years after I…
Review: “The Stoning of Soraya M” starring Shoreh Agdashloo and Jim Caviezel
[AMAZONPRODUCT=B00450AGA0] Not every film is meant to pull on one’s heart strings in a positive…
Review: “The Ides of March” starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B005ZCSP9Q”] In my experience, every presidential election brings about at least some small blossoming…
Review: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” starring Daniel Radcliffe
I open this review with a bit of a confession. When the last book in…
Review: “Nothing to Envy” by Barbara Demick
[AMAZONPRODUCT=1847080146] If there was a competition for the “most pointless” country in the world, North…