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   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:30:38 -0500, super70s   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <545lhg1ks2ngqjhp92mi4odk9hl2v7ru1l@4ax.com>,   
   > Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:15:51 -0500, super70s   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >Strangerland (2014)   
   >> >   
   >> >Nicole Kidman doesn't play up her natural beauty in this Australian-set   
   >> >drama about a couple whose two kids run off into the desert, with some   
   >> >strong support from hubby Joseph Fiennes and local sheriff Hugo Weaving.   
   >> >In the featurette we find out Strangerland was her first return to her   
   >> >native Oz since the boat thriller Dead Calm. Excellent acting, direction   
   >> >and writing I thought.   
   >> >   
   >> >Stone (2010)   
   >> >   
   >> >Robert De Niro is a prison parole officer who is corrupted by inmate   
   >> >Edward Norton and his wife Milla Jovovich (va va voom), eventually   
   >> >"losing his religion" as he spirals down, along with loyal wife Frances   
   >> >Conroy (Broken Flowers). I was expecting a shoot 'em up with those two   
   >> >male leads but this is the kind of thought provoking drama I really   
   >> >enjoy. Great movie.   
   >>   
   >> (The following films may have been reviewed before, but they are worth   
   >> mentioning.  Recent films that I have watched)   
   >>   
   >> "The Hundred-Foot Journey" (2014)   
   >>   
   >> Starring Helen Mirren.  The Kadam family leaves India for France where   
   >> they open a restaurant in a small village directly across the road   
   >> from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.   
   >>   
   >> Warning:  This film will make you hungry.  Excellent film.   
   >   
   >I thought this sounded familiar, I checked my "Free HBO viewings" list   
   >and turns out I saw it on June 20 during the last free preview (yeah I'm   
   >a movie nerd I keep detailed records of this stuff, lol). I remember   
   >having a favorable impression.   
   >   
   >> "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"  (2007)   
   >>   
   >> Terrific film about a crime with a lot of twists.  Stars Philip   
   >> Seymour Hoffman, directed by Sidney Lumet.   
   >   
   >I don't know how wide a distribution this had when it was first released   
   >but I caught it at a "boutique cinema" in a nearby big city back in   
   >2007. The DVD has also been in my library for several years. Lumet must   
   >have been sensitive to the criticism of the opening sex scene which many   
   >thought was gratuitous, he deleted it for the DVD release.   
   >   
   >> "Munich" (2005)   
   >>   
   >> Munich is a 2005 historical action thriller film produced and directed   
   >> by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. It is   
   >> based on the 1984 book Vengeance by George Jonas, an account of   
   >> Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation   
   >> against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich   
   >> massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.   
   >>   
   >> Violent and bloody film full of suspense.  Excellent.   
   >   
   >Yeah a good one.   
   >   
   >> "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011)   
   >>   
   >> Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film   
   >> directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget   
   >> O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of   
   >> the same name. The film stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, with Colin   
   >> Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict   
   >> Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik and Kathy Burke supporting. It   
   >> is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet   
   >> double agent at the top of the British secret service.   
   >>   
   >> Oldman is outstanding as George Smiley.  You have to be on your toes   
   >> for this one.   
   >   
   >A little too much boring British political discourse for me, many think   
   >it's inferior to the TV version. But yeah Oldman never disappoints.   
      
   I just sent away for the BBC version with Sir Alec Guinness.   
      
   Yes, you have to be on your toes for this one; lots of political   
   intrigue.  It helps if you get definitions of some of the terms used   
   before you watch it such as 'Control, "Circus", "Nursery", "Mole",   
   Karla and more.  Available through Google.   
      
   Relates to the "Cambridge Five", too.  Kim Philby in particular.   
      
   I thought the film was "outstanding".  To each his own.  :)   
      
   Lots of "secrets".  It's a spy film!   
      
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