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The Russia House (1990)
LeCarre and Sean Connery? Sign me up!
This is a thoroughly enjoyable movie, With adventure and romance but grounded in the cynical world view (some might've call it realism) that has always distinguished LeCarre from other writers. .
Total Control (2019)
A welcome change of pace
Strong characters, interesting story. This is a show with heart as well as soul. Well written, and you care about the people.
Bang (2017)
NY Times loved this
As the Welsh government champions the revitalization of its mother tongue, the country's television industry is doing its part toward language immersion.
"Bang," premiering Monday, Oct. 15, on the streaming service Acorn TV, is the latest in a recent spate of Welsh-language thrillers, this one threaded with English and subtitles for Welsh, also called Cymraeg, for those who can't untangle its knotty cadences.
Set in the steel town of Port Talbot - the childhood home of the actors Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen - "Bang" rises from a less bucolic Wales than shows like "Keeping Faith" and "Hidden," its moody shoreline juxtaposed against a backdrop of blast furnaces and smokestacks. And the story of "Bang" is as grimy as its setting, with a shabby menagerie of tough guys, stolen-car dealers and loan sharks shredding the local fabric while Gina (Catrin Stewart), an ambitious young police officer, tries to the return the streets to safety.
But mostly it's the story of her brother, Sam (Jacob Ifan) - a hapless warehouse grunt who, as a 5-year-old, witnessed the shooting death of their father - and the seeming invincibility ignited within him once he finds himself in possession of a gun.
2016: Obama's America (2012)
Run, Don't Walk
If the idea of a black man being elected President of the United States drives you absolutely crazy, and the idea that your secret agenda for your country is driven by the father who abandoned you at birth and have only seen twice in your life doesn't seem far fetched, then you will love this movie. It is propaganda of the highest form. But your money might be better spent by sending it directly to the Romney campaign, or better yet, to the NRA.
It is such a preposterous notion, so artfully argued, that you might almost believe some of it has some basis in truth. But then, unless you watch Fox News non-stop, it dawns on you that you have been seduced by a paranoid dream of Africans taking over the country. And that that is a bad thing. If you are curious about the art of propaganda but not ready to pay money for it, buy a ticket for another movie and then drop by afterward to see as much of this one as you can stomach. Me? I left really worried about how effectively it presented a completely paranoid, bizarrely contorted view of the world with so little basis in reality.