Body of Lies 2008 Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man ...
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The Last Tycoon (1976) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

The Last Tycoon (1976)
Elia Kazan, the premiere aesthete of obvious pseudo-naturalism, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the quintessential moony romantic of American letters, could ...
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The Girl In White (1952) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

The Girl In White (1952)
John Sturges moves out of his normally macho territory to handle unusual material for the time; the tale of Emily ...
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Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
I felt compelled to take a look at this one for reuniting of Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli, after their ...
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Angel Face (1952) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Angel Face (1952)
Brilliant Otto Preminger tale of domestic decay. Like Jacques Tourneur’s Out Of The Past, also featuring Robert Mitchum, it sustains ...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
Something of a pet charity in my house when I was growing up, because for lovers of sea drama with ...
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The Painted Veil (2006) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

The Painted Veil (2006)
An adaptation of Somerset Maugham, and apparent labour of love for producer-star Edward Norton, it’s both intriguing and intelligent, but ...
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The Bond films had displayed a certain care in planning until this point, starting with Dr. No hinting at SPECTRE’s ...
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10,000 B.C. (2007) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

10,000 B.C. (2007)
Where’s Sarah Palin when you need her? Lo, the legends tell that in the dark years of the millennium’s turn, ...
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Gone Baby Gone (2007) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Of last year’s raft of arty-noir (No Country For Old Men, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, We Own The ...
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