Tag Archives: political thriller

5 trepte spre apocalipsă (carte: Ken Follett – Never / Niciodată)

Posted on October 3, 2024 by admin

Pentru mine, la fel ca pentru mulți dintre cei care călătoresc des cu avioanele, expresia ‘literatură de aeroport’ nu are nimic peiorativ. Găsesc puține utilizări mai bune timpului în care mă găsesc captiv în avioane sau în sălile de așteptare … Continue reading →

Posted in books | Tagged british literature, dystopia, Ken Follett, Never, Niciodată, novels, political thriller, spy novels | Leave a comment

too dark to be true? (film: Civil War – Alex Garland, 2024)

Posted on August 20, 2024 by admin

Dystopias on screens seem to impress less lately, and this is probably also due to the fact that our lives and the events around us contain more and more elements of dystopia. ‘Civil War‘, the film written and directed by … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged action thriller, Alex Garland, American cinema, author cinema, author film, Cailee Spaeny, Civil War, dystopia, Hollywood movies, Kirsten Dunst, original script, political thriller, road movies, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Wagner Moura | Leave a comment

a film about courage (film: Tatami – Zar Amir Ebrahimi & Guy Nattiv, 2023)

Posted on July 27, 2024 by admin

We are in the Olympic year and season, and ‘Tatami‘ (2023) directed by Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv is the right movie for this season. It can be said that the (Olympic) spirit of sport and the relationship between … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Arienne Mandi, Guy Nattiv, international movies production, Iranian cinema in exile, movies about sport, political drama, political thriller, Tatami, Zar Amir Ebrahimi | Leave a comment

this is not ’24’ (TV series: ‘Rabbit Hole’ – Glenn Ficcara, John Requa, 2023)

Posted on January 3, 2024 by admin

Comparisons between ‘Rabbit Hole‘ (2023) and ’24’ (2001-2010) are inevitable and I have the impression that the producers of the series created by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and produced by the Paramount+ studios did not avoid them. Kiefer Sutherland … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged action tv series, american tv series, Charles Dance, conspiracy theory, Glenn Ficcara, John Requa, Kiefer Sutherland, Meta Golding, political thriller, Walt Klink | Leave a comment

political thriller about corruption in Spain (film: El reino – Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 201

Posted on January 1, 2024 by admin

‘El reino‘ is the original title of Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen‘s film, which dominated the Goya Awards ceremony for films made in 2018. The title translates as ‘The Kingdom‘ and I believe that its meaning is important, although it was … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Alejandro de Pablo, Antonio de la Torre, Olivier Arson, original script, political thriller, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spanish cinema | Leave a comment

one of the best political thrillers (film: I … comme Icare – Henri Verneuil, 1979)

Posted on December 8, 2023 by admin

Henri Verneuil is a director whose films need to be re-watched and re-evaluated. It is not necessarily about his blockbuster films, the ones for which he gained fame as ‘the most American of French directors’. Several of the films at … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged conspiracy theory, Didier Decoin, Ennio Morricone, French cinema, Henri Verneuil, I comme Icare, political thriller, Yves Montand | Leave a comment

În umbra Țarului (carte: Giuliano da Empoli – Magul de la Kremlin)

Posted on August 9, 2023 by admin

Colecția ‘Raftul Denisei’ a Editurii Humanitas-fiction a oferit cititorilor săi în această primăvară, în traducerea lui Bogdan Ghiu, una dintre senzațiile literare ale lumii literare franceze în anul 2022 – romanul ‘Magul de la Kremlin’ al lui Giuliano da Empoli. … Continue reading →

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iron lady (film: Miss Sloane – John Madden, 2016)

Posted on July 28, 2023 by admin

Film director John Madden has made some of my favorite films in the romantic genre, but for the past few years he seems more interested in thrillers in their various forms. The turning point seems to have been ‘Miss Sloane‘, … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged American cinema, American movies, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, John Madden, Jonathan Perera, Mark Strong, Miss Sloane, original script, political thriller | Leave a comment

there shall not be two pharaohs (film: Cairo Conspiracy – Tarik Saleh, 2022)

Posted on June 3, 2023 by admin

Tarik Saleh is an Egyptian-born filmmaker living in Sweden. His career is divided between Sweden, Hollywood and productions about Egypt. The latter are made outside the country, including ‘Cairo Conspiracy‘ in which the story takes place in a Cairo whose … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Boy from Heaven, Cairo Conspiracy, Egypt, Fares Fares, international movies production, political cinema, political drama, political thriller, religion, Tarik Saleh, Tawfeek Barhom | Leave a comment

a rollercoaster made of gold (film: Gold – Stephen Gaghan, 2016)

Posted on April 7, 2023 by admin

‘Gold‘, the 2016 film by director Steven Gaghan, has as its main character a kind of American anti-hero. The character is derived from the stories of social and economic ascents (‘rags to riches’) that embody the American dream in cinematography. … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged action thriller, American cinema, Based on a True Story, Bryce Dallas Howard, Edgar Ramirez, Matthew McConaughey, political thriller, social drama, Stephen Gaghan | Leave a comment