Christopher Saunders
I do not propose to recount my life in any detail, what is what. No damn business of anybody's, what is what. I am Groggy Dundee, *that* is what!
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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog
http://nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/
Reviews movies from all eras, countries and genres.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 653 )
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Detroit
Few directors handle white-knuckle intensity better than Kathryn Bigelow, and Detroit (2017) delivers that in spades. The movie's second act, an hour of brutal... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
August Preview! Some Movies, More History
"What is all this nonsense about Groggy posting history instead of film reviews? I want him murdered!"Welcome to August for all of my readers! Read more
Posted on 05 August 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Drowning Pool
Nine years after Harper (1966), Paul Newman reprises his role as Ross Macdonald's snide, gum-chewing detective in The Drowning Pool (1975). Read more
Posted on 31 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Dunkirk (2017)
Over time, Christopher Nolan's career evolved from modest art films (Memento, Following) to bombastic blockbusters (The Dark Knight, Inception, etc.) evincing... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Live by Night
After a string of critical successes (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, the Oscar-winning Argo), Ben Affleck found his first flop with Live By Night (2016). Read more
Posted on 26 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Few films rose and fell as quickly as The Birth of a Nation (2016), Nate Parker's troubled Nat Turner biopic. After a rapturous Sundance reception and... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Assassin (1961)
Elio Petri's debut film, The Assassin (1961) offers a noir-inflected character study. Marcello Mastroianni plays a criminal who's caught, ironically, for... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Illustrious Corpses
"One judge's murder is a crime, but four is political!"Francesco Rosi crafts a politically-charged whodunnit with Illustrious Corpses (1976). Read more
Posted on 23 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Lost City of Z
James Gray's The Lost City of Z (2017) breaks the mold of recent epics that are all spectacle and little depth. It's a remarkable movie, functioning both as an... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Founder
(2016) seems like two separate stories vying for space in the same movie. One is a scathing indictment of unbridled capitalism, using McDonald's honcho Ray... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Get Out
"Some people don't want strangers messing around with their head."In his wildest dreams, comedian Jordan Peele probably couldn't have imagined that his... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
RIP George Romero
I would be remiss if I didn't note the passing of Pittsburgh's own George A. Romero. Mr. Romero, age 77, is the filmmaker behind Night of the Living Dead (1968)... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: Appointment at Veracruz, 1914
Woodrow Wilson was a man of contradictory impulses. He enacted progressive economic and labor reforms while racially segregating the Federal government. Read more
Posted on 14 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Long Goodbye
"I'm a born loser. I even lost my cat."Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) was initially among his least successful pictures. Read more
Posted on 09 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Wonder Woman
"What I do is not up to you!"DC's attempt at aping Marvel's success with a Cinematic Universe (ugh) has been an unmitigated disaster, with dour, unwatchable... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: Racism, Riot and Mutiny in Houston, 1917
Men of the 24th Infantry RegimentOn April 8th, 1916 elements of the 24th United States Infantry Regiment visited the border town of Del Rio, Texas. Read more
Posted on 07 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
State of the Blog
Hello, everyone. I hope that you're having a nice summer and that you've enjoyed, or at least tolerated, last month's extensive history articles. I certainly... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: General Graves and the Siberian Shuffle
America's intervention in SiberiaPicture a scene from a John Buchan or Ian Fleming thriller: a general, summoned across country without notice, arrives at a... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: The American Polar Bears Meet the Bolsheviks
Americans in the Russian Civil War (source)While the 110th Infantry battled for survival in France, the 339th Infantry waited across the English Channel to... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: Somerset County's Men of Iron in the Great War
SourceWhile the American Protective League waged war on phantom subversives, soldiers under General John J. Pershing prepared to fight a more substantial foe. Read more
Posted on 24 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES