A Man for All Seasons: Under Pressure
Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield. Photo: Columbia When it comes to the play ”A Man for all Seasons”, and its 1966 film adaptation, there were historical errors that Thomas More…
Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, famous detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) boards the Orient Express, but ends up stranded in Yugoslavia with a fresh murder case and a train full of suspects. Agatha…
Blowup: Don’t Analyze It to Death
Photo: MGM I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a film student and rediscovering it ten years later was a delight. Perhaps it is one of…
Mission Impossible: Unmasking a Traitor
Tom Cruise. Photo: Paramount Eleven years ago, I stepped out of a theater together with my buddies after watching Mission: Impossible and was as enthusiastic as any twenty-year-old can be…