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Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

Dec2 by professormortis

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8 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, king, Mars, Queen, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

November 20th, 2012: Thirteen Days (2000)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Air Operations, Based on a Book, Campaign History, Movember, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Political Thriller, Thriller, War Movies Tagged New Line Cinema, Ed Lauter, Cold War, Dylan Baker, Soviets, Cubans, Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear war, Soviet Union, President of the United States, Cuba, Air Force, Kevin Conway, James Karen, U.S. Navy, nuclear missile base, nuclear weapons, Kevin Costner, Len Cariou, Bruce Greenwood, JFK, RFK, blockade

November 13th, 2012: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Nov13 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Remake, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged adultery, Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Britain, Canal+, Christmas Party, Ciaran Hinds, Cold War, Colin Firth, double agent, double cross, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, John Le Carre, Mark Strong, MI6, party, Soviet Union, Soviets, Stephen Graham, Studio Canal, Toby Jones, Tom Hardy, Tomas Alfredson, Working Title Films

September 7th, 2012: From Russia with Love (1963)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Espionage, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Romance, Sequel, Thriller Tagged Albert R. Broccoli, Anthony Dawson, Bernard Lee, boat, cat fight, code machine, dancing girls, Desmond Llewelyn, Eunice Gayson, fight in a train car, gadgets, gypsies, Harry Saltzman, helicopter, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John Barry, Lois Maxwell, Lotte Lenya, Martine Beswick, Orient Express, Pedro Armendáriz, revenge, Richard Maibaum, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery, sniper, Soviet Union, Soviets, SPECTRE, train, Turkey, United Artists, Walter Gotell

OSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

May10 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Comedy, Espionage, Fish-Out-of-Water, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Satire, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Canal+, CineCinema, double cross, Egypt, France, Gaumont, Jean Dujardin, M6 Films, Mandarin Films, Michel Hazanavicius, musical interlude, Nazis, OSS117, princess, Soviets, Suez Canal, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

August 11th, 2011: Red Dawn (1985)

Aug11 by professormortis

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5 Comments Posted in Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, So-Bad-It's-Good, War Movies Tagged Ben Johnson, brothers, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, concentration camp, Cubans, double cross, football team, Frank McRae, Guerrillas, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey, John Milius, Lane Smith, Lea Thompson, paratroopers, Patrick Swayze, Powers Boothe, Ron O'Neal, Roy Jenson, Sandinistas, Soviets, Spetnaz, United Artists, World War Three

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