This week Philip Seymour Hoffman features in two new American sports movies, one about their most venerable - if not impenetrable - pastime of baseball and the other on the…
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So, after trawling through the many thousands of words written about cinema in these pages this year, I suppose you want me to come to some conclusions? Do some “summing…
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From the tour de force of A Few Good Men in 1992 (“You can’t handle the truth!”) to the winning Charlie Wilson’s War in 2007, Aaron Sorkin’s sparkling dialogue and…
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Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk: BARTLET That was a hell of a convention. OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it. BARTLET…
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day in 1979. They remained in the country, brutally suppressing the local resistance, until they were forced to leave in 1989: almost ten…
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