The Sum of All Fears: The Forgotten Post-9/11 Jack Ryan Movie

When Amazon’s Jack Ryan series debuts this weekend, John Krasinski will become the fifth actor to play Tom Clancy’s CIA analyst in just under three decades. The new Ryan, pitted against Middle Eastern terrorists, comes four years after Chris Pine’s version faced off wit nefarious Russians in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Lost and nearly forgotten, […]

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REVIEW: Papillon Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Shiv in the Gut

Papillon is based on the memoirs of Henri Charrière, a 1930s French safecracker who was sent to an inescapable penal colony from which he subsequently (spoiler alert) escaped. But it’s also based on the 1973 film version of those memoirs (screenwriters Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. are officially credited) and hews closely to it. […]

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Spike and Quentin Feud, But Their Movies Overlap

Sorry to Bother You writer-director Boots Riley recently took to social media to criticize Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman — based on the true story of a black Colorado Springs police detective’s undercover infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s — for what he perceived as the film’s pro-police message and altering of the historical […]

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REVIEW: Dirty Doc Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Is Really into Annals

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the movie version of the 2012 memoir Full Service, in which George Albert “Scotty” Bowers shared juicy details about his decades-long pimping for Tinseltown celebrities. Shot by director Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) back in 2012-14 (I don’t know why it took so long to get […]

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