WAR MACHINE IS THE BIGGEST ANTI-WAR FILM SINCE PLATOON Inspired by Michael Hastings’s book The Operators, director David Michôd has out-Oliver Stone’d us by deciding to tell the truth about the Afghan War. Although Barack Obama once called the intervention in Afghanistan as a “good war,” portrayal of the longest war in American history clearly seems anything but […]
WAR MACHINE IS THE BIGGEST ANTI-WAR FILM SINCE PLATOON Inspired by Michael Hastings’s book The Operators, director David Michôd has out-Oliver Stone’d us by deciding to tell the truth about the Afghan War. Although Barack Obama once called the intervention in Afghanistan as a “good war,” portrayal of the longest war in American history clearly seems anything but
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ARMENIANS “EVACUATE” IN THE PROMISE The Armenian genocide has never been so vividly depicted as in The Promise, directed by Terry George, winner of a Political Film Society award for best film on human rights of 2004 for Hotel Rwanda. The film focuses on Mikael Boghosian (played by Oscar Isaac), son of a pharmacist in a small Armenian
ARMENIANS “EVACUATE” IN THE PROMISE The Armenian genocide has never been so vividly depicted as in The Promise, directed by Terry George, winner of a Political Film Society award for best film on human rights of 2004 for Hotel Rwanda. The film focuses on Mikael Boghosian (played by Oscar Isaac), son of a pharmacist in a small Armenian
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DID TWO EXPLORERS FIND PARADISE IN THE LOST CITY OF Z ? A biopic of Percy Fawcett (played by Charlie Hunnam), The Lost City of Z is a fascinating account of efforts to find a lost civilization in the upper Amazon based on a 2009 book of the same title by David Grann, though with a revealing subtitle A Tale
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DID TWO EXPLORERS FIND PARADISE IN THE LOST CITY OF Z ? A biopic of Percy Fawcett (played by Charlie Hunnam), The Lost City of Z is a fascinating account of efforts to find a lost civilization in the upper Amazon based on a 2009 book of the same title by David Grann, though with a revealing subtitle A Tale
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TICKLING GIANTS PROVES THAT COMEDY IS ONLY CRUEL FOR THE CRUEL A self-documentary in the style of Roger & Me, Bassem Youssef tells his story in Tickling Giants as he became the John Stewart of Egypt for four seasons. With considerable film footage, he begins as a heart surgeon who is caught up in the Arab Spring of
TICKLING GIANTS PROVES THAT COMEDY IS ONLY CRUEL FOR THE CRUEL A self-documentary in the style of Roger & Me, Bassem Youssef tells his story in Tickling Giants as he became the John Stewart of Egypt for four seasons. With considerable film footage, he begins as a heart surgeon who is caught up in the Arab Spring of
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TICKLING GIANTS PROVES THAT COMEDY IS ONLY CRUEL FOR THE CRUEL A self-documentary in the style of Roger & Me, Bassem Youssef tells his story in Tickling Giants as he became the John Stewart of Egypt for four seasons. With considerable film footage, he begins as a heart surgeon who is caught up in the Arab Spring of
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THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE KEPT MORE THAN 4-LEGGED ANIMALS When the film begins, the Warsaw Zoo is reproduced as it was in early 1939 (though filming is in Prague), with Antonina Zabinski (played by Jessica Chastain) petting and showering love on many animals as she begins the morning and continues throughout the day and night. The zoo’s
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