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Black Warrant – 2025. Stunning and Gritty
Clickable links in red Genre: Crime drama (based on a true story). Writer Director: Vikramaditya Motwane. Cast: Zahan Kapoor. Rahul Bhat. Paramvir Cheema. Anurag Thakur. Platform: Netflix – 7 episodes. Duration: 7 episodes x 45 minutes each. Often, I have heard arguments or discussions about “why can’t we make a realistic crime thriller…
Read MoreThe Old Man. Season 1 (2022). Season 2 (2024) – The Past is Never Dead and Buried
Genre: Spy Movie Time: 7 episodes x average 50 minutes Platform: Disney Hotstar SEASON 1 “You get to be my age in this business and one way or another, you will have something personal with just about everyone”. “Better way is to keep things buried in the ground than to wish them…
Read MoreHell in the Pacific (1968) – A unique film
Clickable links in red Genre – War Movie Time: 1 Hour, 43 minutes Platform: You Tube Free Director: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin. Toshiro Mifune. There are war movies and then there is Hell in the Pacific. A unique film with ONLY two characters onscreen. The American cannot speak Japanese while the Japanese…
Read MoreDanger Close (2019) – War is hell
All clickable links in red Genre – War Movie (true story) Time: 2 Hours Platform: Amazon Prime Director: Kriv Stenders. Platform : Amazon Prime Whenever we think of the Vietnam War, the popular image is the American image, with helicopters ferrying troops, US air force combat planes blasting and napalming jungles and pictures of various…
Read MoreKatyn (2007) – A horrific true story
All clickable links in red Genre – War Movie (true story) Time : 2 Hours Platform: You Tube Free Language : Polish Director : Andrzej Wajda There is a Cold War joke that goes like this Its 1981 and the Soviets are making threatening noises to invade Poland (like they did with…
Read MoreKleo (2022) – ROCKING GOOD!
It’s 1987, and the Cold War is in full swing. Kleo Straub, an unofficial “wet work” specialist – meaning assassin – is infiltrated through The Wall into West Berlin to assassinate a target. She reaches the nightclub and entices the target, but not before an off-duty West Berlin cop Sven Petzold (Dimitri Schaad), tries…
Read MoreThe Dirty Dozen – 1967 – A CLASSIC!
Director: Robert Aldrich Cast: Lee Marvin. Charles Bronson. John Cassavetes. Telly Savalas. Jim Brown. Ernest Borgnine. Robert Ryan. Donald Sutherland. Richard Jaeckel. etc In England, Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin) watches the hanging of a soldier in a military prison and is immediately asked to report to General Worden (Ernst Borgnine), who then gives him…
Read MoreDogs of Berlin (2018) – gritty, violent, seamy, Berlin Noir
Noir. A genre of American filmmaking that came into its own during WW2 and the mid to late 1940s and gradually faded in the 1950s. The French were the first to identify it and give it a different name – noir in French means black. Generally, it signifies a specific style of filmmaking with specific…
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