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Friday, November 13, 2015
First Lines: Eric Ambler - A Coffin for Dimitrios
A Frenchman named Chamfort, who should have known better, once said that chance wasa nickname for Providence.
La cage dorée (2013)
A working-class Portuguese couple in Paris have become so indispensable that they’re afraid to tell their employers they’d like to return to their homeland.
Likable, but rather unassuming light comedy with a lively cast, which makes it worth the watch.
First Lines: Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
Behavioral science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building in Quantico, half-buried in the earth.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
World Without End (1956)
Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.
Mediocre, but mildy entertaining sci-fi yarn; lots of laughable moments, the audacity to 'civilize' a 500 years advanced society with 50s machismo included.
Halliwell (no star): "Reasonably lively sci-fi with horror elements, and a plot borrowed from H.G. Wells."
Maltin**1/2: "Pretty good sci-fi owes more than a little to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine."
