political thriller
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Queerguru reviews CONCLAVE a superb political thriller about the election of a new Pope
Conclave the political thriller about electing a new Pope seems the perfect film for our own religious mutt to watch and review on the second day of Hanukkah. This fictional story is based on the century’s old tradition of electing a new Pope when the current one dies. All the Catholic Cardinals from around…
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Miss Sloane
Jessica Chastain gives a powerful career-best performance in the title role of the excellent Miss Sloane which is unquestionably the most compelling political thriller of the year and which will certainly captivate audiences everywhere …. particularly ones that include feminists …. and may finally give Miss Chastain the Best Actress Oscar that she has been nominated…
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Zipper
Actor Patrick Wilson could pass for disgraced ex New York Governor Eliot Spitzer if the lighting was just right, but this rather clumsy drama that is either based or inspired by Spitzer’s downfall, just couldn’t ever be mistaken for the real thing. Wilson plays Sam Ellis who is a Federal prosecutor who is on the…
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Argo
In 1979 at the height of the Iranian unrest angry mobs in Tehran stormed the US Embassy taking the 52 members of staff hostage. Unbeknown to the militants 6 members of the Visa Department, which had it’s own street entrance, managed to escape and were given refuge by the Canadian Ambassador and his wife in…
