Directed by David Mamet Spartan really moves, almost right off the bat. It's an addicting kind of a movie, with Val Kilmer playing some version of 24's Jack Bauer, free and eager to bend the rules so that he might accomplish the mission in front of him. Scott (Kilmer) works for the Secret Service in some capacity, … Continue reading Spartan (2004)
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Directed by John Frankenheimer Seven Days in May is a political thriller set in the imagined future of 1970. Shot in 1963, not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film discusses the threat of nuclear war at a time when that threat was very real. Wait, that's today. Before we meet President Jordan Lyman … Continue reading Seven Days in May (1964)
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