As deputy associate director of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, career G-Man Mark Felt (Liam Neeson) always believed himself to be next in line for the top job. But after Hoover’s death, he was passed over and forced to remain on as second-in-command. Then, Nixon’s White House became embroiled in the Watergate scandal just […]
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Film Review: “Run All Night”
There’s a reason Liam Neeson doesn’t have an Academy Award, and that’s because as a dramatic actor, he is just shy of awful. Yeah, he did receive an Oscar nod for 1993’s “Schindler’s List,” but let’s admit that any one of us could get nominated in the lead role of a Steven Spielberg Holocaust movie. […]
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Film Review: “A Walk Among the Tombstones”
Although the American private detective story traditionally takes place in California, especially in Los Angeles, many contemporary writers set their works in other locales, some of them actually quite implausible. A surprising number of stories these days deal with small towns, which hardly abound in enough murders, missing persons, stolen jewels, and similar problems to […]
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Film Review: “Third Person”
Paul Haggis, the Academy Award-winning writer-director of “Crash,” is back in similar territory with “Third Person,” another multi-narrative, everyone-is-connected melodrama which unfortunately shares many of the same problems that plagued his ponderously didactic Best Picture winner. His new film weaves together three separate storylines taking place in three different countries. In the first, an award-winning […]
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‘K-19’: a fascinating, refreshing blockbuster
Judging by the fact that it’s lasted so long and surfaces so frequently, the submarine movie should be plumbing the dark depths of the megaplexes for many years to come. Even in these times, its necessarily narrow set and limited cast make it a relatively economical project, and its concentration on complicated machinery, underwater photography, […]
