Saturday, November 01, 2014

People learn to hate

Idris Elba portrays Nelson Mandela, a thoroughly fine and convincing job there. But as I reckon, Nelson, his family and his 30 million South African compadres suffered to hell and back and yet this movie offers only lukewarm thrills at best.

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Born from the snow

I read David Howarth 's book Die Alone (1955) and noticed that it has been made into two films. Arne Skouen 's Nine Lives (1957) ...