I don’t know why I had my hoped built up for this, the first one disappointed me, and this one didn’t do much better. The main plot still follows the group of fighters that have been recruited by Kora (Sofia Boutella) to protect the people of Veldt from the evil imperial forces that are returning…
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Colonel Sun (1968) – Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis writing as Robert Markham pens his only 007 novel following the death of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming. What he delivers us is a fairly standard adventure for the literary Bond, always smaller in scale when compared to the secret agent’s big screen adventures, that seems to be a little cruder in its…
The Big Red One (1980) – Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller wrote and directed the final film recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of Saving Private Ryan. This title closes out my time with it. The tagline for the film says it best, “The real glory of war is surviving.” And that is what the heart…
The Mind Reels 