Where oh where is Charlton Heston when you need him most?
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Bay of Figs
You want risk? Try what happened at the Bay of Figs.
Noir brawn
"Yeah, like, it was a bomb, but you know, life goes on, innit."
Beware, Emergency
When an emergency takes on its own momentum the first losers are invariably personal dignity and civil rights.
The Spanish Prisoner
David Mamet makes Campbell Scott into a bewildered virtuoso.
Dark City
Trials and tribulations on the floating world in the tarry sky.
The Ipcress File
Michael Caine all but invented the anti-Bond in Furie's 1965 spy thriller.
The Dark Side
There is spectral League of Ordinary Gentlemen available for missions intended to turn the tables on a self-centered culture unable to sense the subtle straying of its suburban young.
Apollo 13
Nobody can fix a broken spacecraft better than Tom Hanks.
Eye of the Storm
Terror, generated by Islamists and others, is a maiming surrogate for big power clashes in an era that has otherwise cancelled them.
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Beevor's story of the Red Army's march on Berlin is a detailed chronicle of bravery and atrocity.
Milan ethnic
The leitmotif of Milan's ethnic restaurants is to outdo Italian food to conquer skeptics.