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Stalingrad, 1942-43. It was the bloodiest single battle in the known history of war, with more than one million perishing of wounds, disease, and the bitter cold of winter. Like Napoleon a century earlier, Hitler came to Stalingrad with the ai...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-03-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Thriller/War
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, ...
With the election of Barack Obama, we have apparently entered a kinder, gentler world in which films about racial harmony and goodwill to all men are becoming commonplace (at least during awards season). How else to explain the presence of both Th...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 concludes the story begun in Mesrine: Killer Instinct. Although the two pieces can be seen as halves of a whole, it's not hard to understand why the project was bisected. Shootouts, prison escapes, and random acts of v...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-09-03
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, ...
I recently had an e-mail dialogue with someone whom I'm tempted to call "close-minded," although that may be an unfair label. The topic of discussion was the recent film Paradise Now, which tells the story of two potential suicide bombers. The film...