Stillwater

https://getdarker.com/editorial/articles/s4so7ugv Stillwater              Tom McCarthy (2021) Facts for You: Where to Watch: Only in theaters. Length: 2 hours 19 minutes Names You  Might Know: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin Language: English Rating: R (for language) He Said: Tom McCarthy’s last major film, a little thing called Spotlight, didn’t do much other than win an Academy Award as the Best Picture of 2015. His… Continue reading Stillwater

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The Death of Jesus

go to site The Death of Jesus J.M. Coetzee (2019) Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winning novelist J.M. Coetzee has spent the bulk of the last decade composing a trilogy that (perhaps even more than his earlier novels, if that is possible) has managed to confuse and frustrate his readers. The “Jesus” trilogy—which began with The Childhood of… Continue reading The Death of Jesus

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The Cellist

go to link The Cellist Daniel Silva (2021) It’s no exaggeration to say that what John le Carré was to novels of Cold War politics, Daniel Silva is to this generation’s political thrillers. For decades, Silva has been producing suspenseful spy-stories dealing with situations involving Muslim extremist attacks on Israel, Nazi crimes concealed by Swiss banks, extremist plots… Continue reading The Cellist

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Black Widow

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No Sudden Move

https://www.yolascafe.com/zq9rvc1p No Sudden MoveSteven Soderbergh (2021) Facts for You: Where to Watch: HBO Max Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Names You  Might Know: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Matt Damon, Brendon Feraser, Jon Hamm, Ray Liotta Language: English Rating: R (for violence, language, some sexual references) He Said: It is the mid-1950s. Three criminals invade a family’s suburban home and hold the… Continue reading No Sudden Move

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In Cold Blood

source url In Cold Blood Truman Capote (1966) It’s now more than fifty-five years since Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood created a sensation seldom equaled in the history of American letters. The book made six million dollars in the mid- 1960s—the equivalent of, say, $48 million today. It’s hard to argue with that kind of success. But although the… Continue reading In Cold Blood

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Atonement

http://www.mscnantes.org/ilua2d3 Atonement Ian McEwan (2001) If you have read much of acclaimed contemporary novelist Ian McEwan’s work, you are well aware that Atonement, which did not win the Booker Prize, is a much better novel than his Amsterdam, which did win it. (Shortlisted in 2001, Atonement lost out to Peter Carey’s impressive True History of the Kelly Gang.) A wider ranging… Continue reading Atonement

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An Artist of the Floating World

go site An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) Ishiguro’s second novel is not as well known as his Booker-prize winning Remains of the Day, or his popular and acclaimed Never Let Me Go, but it is in An Artist of the Floating World that Ishiguro hits the stride that will eventually lead him to his 2017 Nobel Prize… Continue reading An Artist of the Floating World

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