K-19 feels like an underrated Kathryn Bigelow film. She once again dives into the pressures of the armed services and war and she has a fantastic cast including Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, and Peter Sarsgaard. Set at the height of the Cold War in 1961, when Mutually Assured Destruction seemed to be moments away from…
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – The Way of the Warrior
Station log: stardate 49011.4 Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe pen the fourth season opener that sees Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) settle into his iconic look, and the Enterprise’s Worf (Micheal Dorn) joining the crew. With an original broadcast date of 2 October, 1995, the season opened with a Klingon fleet arriving at Deep…
Lord Jim (1965) – Richard Brooks
Peter O’Toole finds himself in yet another epic film, as I continue my exploration of the recommendations from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of Lawrence of Arabia. Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad the film doesn’t have the same sweep and expanse that Arabia does, but it…
The Mind Reels 