• February 16, 2023
• Moviepie Musings

I can vouch that the super-simple game of Tetris is the most addictive video game ever. In the late 80s, it was the only game on my college roommate’s...

• November 13, 2017
• Action, At Home, Drama

Hours before the Berlin Wall topples as a result of the thawing Cold War, it’s spy vs. spy vs. spy vs. spy in this smoking hot, stylish, violent, and...

• November 1, 2015
• At Home, Documentary, War

Throughout history, there have been leaps in warfare, from sticks and stones, to bows and arrows, to guns, then machine guns. But thermonuclear warfare was such a jump in...

• October 16, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

That is not to say that Spielberg doesn’t know how to make an entertaining historical film. Bridge of Spies, after an exceptionally sluggish first half hour or so, is...

• March 8, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings. They are an attractive married couple with two kids, and they go off to work together every day to...

• November 14, 2012
• Action, At Home, War

In the updated version of Red Dawn, it is the North Koreans invading instead of a Soviet-led contingent, and once again, the story revolves around a group of kids...

• July 21, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

K-19: The Widowmaker is based on actual events that took place in 1961, at the height of the Cold War: In an effort stay ahead in the nuclear arms...