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After watching this I wondered what the sequel might be called. Let the Left One In, maybe? Or perhaps it should be a trilogy, with the latter two titled Let the Right One Out and Let the Right One In … Continue reading
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Writer-director Michel Hazanvicius and actors Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo of OSS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies are back, this time in a film set in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And once again Hazanavicius uses cinematic techniques appropriate … Continue reading
Three years after the frequently hilarious OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, director Michel Hazanavicius and star Jean Dujardin return with a sequel (released in French as OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus — Rio is no longer answering) that … Continue reading
Here’s a quite funny spy film parody from the director and stars of the Oscar-winning The Artist. In 1949 a French writer named Jean Bruce launched a series of spy novels about an American of French descent named Hubert Bonisseur … Continue reading
Nobel-Prize-winning Princeton University economist Paul Krugman contends that we could get out of the current economic doldrums fairly quickly—not overnight, but in less than two years—were it not for the fact that so many politicians here and in Europe have … Continue reading
Movies often come in accidental clusters, and in 2010 we got two computer-animated films with supervillains as protagonists, namely Despicable Me (reviewed previously) and Megamind. Aside from that basic germ of an idea, the films are quite different, and both … Continue reading
Pleiades, built by the non-profit Galaxian Society, is Earth’s first starship, and nobody, not even its builders, fully understands how it works. Theory says it should be able to leap instantly from a given point in space to another one … Continue reading
Way back when I was in high school I played Dr. Montague, an anthropologist and paranormal investigator, in a school play adapted by the prolific F. Andrew Leslie from Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House. (Even then, I … Continue reading
Dracula It’s been years since I saw this and I was surprised how much I’d forgotten. It’s quite good, even if not so terrifying now as it must have seemed for its original audiences, back when vampires had not yet … Continue reading
Death at a Funeral: the 2007 British original I rather enjoyed this British ensemble comedy of strange characters and worse situations written by Dean Craig and directed by Frank Oz (also known for Bowfinger, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop or … Continue reading