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Tag: Films About Politics

W. (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I blow hot and cold on Oliver Stone, admiring his capacity to orchestrate images and actors with electric fervour,...

Il Divo (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Breakneck-paced exploration of a murk-shrouded subject – contemporary Italian politics, specifically the gnomic eminence gris that is Giulio Andreotti....

State of Play (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Is it just me, or does many a thriller these days start off well, and yet fail to nail...

Advise and Consent (1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Possibly Otto Preminger’s last great film (although Bunny Lake is Missing has admirers), and the final screen work of...

Freedom and Fate in George Lucas’s THX 1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report

An edited version of an academic essay I wrote in 2009, looking at common generic concerns. George Lucas and...

The International (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Tom Tykwer tackles the conspiracy thriller flick, mixing up Hitchcock, Frederick Forsyth, Alan Pakula, and Jason Bourne, armed with...

Keeper of the Flame (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.An intriguing work from George Cukor, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, who, wittingly or not, repeats elements of his...