Apollo 13 (1995) Review
The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
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DramaArgo (2012) Review
Ben Affleck directed and starred. The film adapts the historical events of the 1980 Canadian Caper, when six American diplomats escaped the Iranian hostage crisis through a CIA operation involving a fake Hollywood production.
DisasterThe Greatest Cruise Ship and Ocean Liner Films
Twenty films set on cruise ships and ocean liners — from Titanic's class-divided sinking to Triangle of Sadness's savage yacht satire to The Love Boat's aspirational not-sinking. The ship is never just a ship. It's a floating world, a class…
HistoricalThe Dentist of Mars
Dr. Evelyn Trask is the only dentist on Mars, her market share is 100 percent, and the protein bars are giving the entire colony periodontal disease.
HistoricalCassandra’s Last Vision
Cursed by Apollo to speak true prophecy that no one believes, Cassandra watches Troy fall exactly as she predicted — and sees, in her final moment, every truth-teller who will follow her.
HistoricalA Garden in Hiroshima
Three generations of women tend a garden behind a house in Hiroshima, growing morning glories in soil that was sterilized by the atomic bomb and refused to stay dead.
DramaThe Fisherman’s War
An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.
DetectiveMurder at the Monastery Gate
A murdered stranger at the monastery gate. A wool merchant with secrets. And an old monk whose fifty-year penance is about to be undone by sins long buried.
DramaThe Last Candle in Constantinople
In the last hours of Constantinople, a mother, her son, and a starving dog find themselves trapped in the Hagia Sophia as an empire dies around them.