Reagan

Ironically enough, a biography about President Reagan made by people who tend to support Trump, whose style, experience, wit and policies often stand in stark contrast. The primary argument of…

Whiskey on the Rocks

In 1981, a drunken birthday party causes a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea to lose its way, eventually running aground in the archipelago of southern Sweden. This tense, real-life…

The Courier

In 1960, a British businessman (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 and the CIA to build a relationship with a Soviet GRU officer (Merab Ninidze) who’s grown disillusioned with Krushchev.…

Oppenheimer: Destroyer of Worlds

Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal There’s a sex scene in this film that generated negative buzz, where Oppenheimer’s girlfriend tells him to read a Sanskrit passage aloud while she’s riding him.…

Rocky IV 

Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) wants a comeback in the ring and decides to fight an intimidating Soviet boxer (Dolph Lundgren); the disastrous consequences pull Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) into the biggest…

Hunt for Red October: Run Silent, Run Deep

Sean Connery. Photo: Paramount In 1988, Die Hard had been such a tremendous hit that a sequel was inevitable. The film's director, John McTiernan, was obviously considered for it. In…

X-Men: First Class

This attempt to jump-start the franchise by taking it in a new direction tells the story of how the young Professor X and Magneto (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender) learned how…

The Iron Giant

In the 1950s, a boy encounters a giant made of iron in the woods; the creature is from outer space and the kid's new playmate is not easily accepted by…

Fail-Safe: Be Very Afraid

Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau. Photo: Columbia 1964 was indeed the year of the Bomb. Stanley Kubrick's absurd Cold War comedy Dr. Strangelove, which was based on a novel by…