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Category: Thriller

Posted on November 15, 2012October 26, 2014

SKYFALL (Dir. Sam Mendes, 2012, UK/US) – Ruins of an Empire

Silva (Bardem) toys with Bond (Craig). James Bond exists in his own unreal universe of preposterous dynamism. Such unrealness cannot compete with the recent demands for realness from a spy…

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Posted on November 10, 2012October 26, 2014

ARGO (Dir. Ben Affleck, 2012, US) – Cowboys and Indians

Ben Affleck as CIA agent Tony Mendez. Argo opens with a glib lesson in shoddy Hollywood political objectivity, attempting to tell us that the geopolitical situation of Iran during the…

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Posted on September 22, 2012October 26, 2014

KILLING THEM SOFTLY (Dir. Andrew Dominik, 2012, US) – ‘America’s not a country, it’s a business…’

Brad Pitt as enforcer/hit-man ‘Jackie Cogan’ ‘And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright – tonight we proved once more that the true strength…

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Posted on January 19, 2012October 26, 2014

THE HUNTER (Dir. Rafi Pitts, 2010, Iran/Germany) – Echoes

(1). Targets (2) Victims Targets (Bogdanovich, 1968)    Night of The Living Dead (Romero, 1968) 

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