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The King's Speech 2010
if sam mendes is a discount christopher nolan -- and he is -- then tom hooper is the bargain bin's bargain bin sam mendes
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Nixon 1995
“his death was awful. it was an awful thing for this country.”
“………yeah.”
there’s an oddity to deriding oliver stone’s nixon — the film, not the titular tony hopkins character — as being overly dramatic, or indeed to assign to it the shakespearean label given to it at the time of its release and still so now, given that it’s a film which attempts to portray extremely consequential world-altering events (presidential elections! jfk! vietnam! detente! mao! watergate!) in the incredibly…
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