Category: War
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Movie Review: “Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, USA 2022)
For a time when I was roughly 10-13 years old, I thought Top Gun (Tony Scott, USA 1986) was the greatest movie ever. I watched it many times, to the point that I can still remember every beat of it even though I haven’t seen it in more than two decades. One of the first…
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Movie Review: “American Sniper” (Clint Eastwood, USA 2014)
I went in to this film unsure of what to expect. While Clint Eastwood has been an effective filmmaker and even against type once directed one of the more effective anti-violence films in history in Unforgiven (USA 1992), the public discourse around the film has entirely focused on an argument about whether the real-life basis…
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Movie Review: “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” (Matt Reeves, USA 2014)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, USA 1968) was a naked political allegory, like much of what Rod Serling wrote. As such, it was a creature of its time even more than most films. However, its basic plot is easily adaptable to making all kinds of points–it is, after all, not at all dissimilar…
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