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Cornered 1945
The short summary of "Cornered" (1945) is that it's about a World War II veteran who hunts down the Nazi official who had given the order for his wife to be killed. But it's also a film noir time capsule into some of the most pressing issues of 1945: PTSD, post-war chaos, anxiety that fascism would go dormant only to rise again.
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The Turning Point 1952
The U.S. Senate’s Kefauver Committee captivated the nation in 1950 and ’51 with a series of hearings in which it interviewed more than 600 witnesses about organized crime in America — much of it live on national TV. Not surprisingly, several ripped-from-the-headlines movies came out shortly afterward. With apologies to “The Godfather Part II,” in which Michael V. Gazzo testifies in front of Congress in a Kefauver-esque scene, “The Turning Point” (1952) might be the best of the films inspired…
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Pig 2021
Nicolas Cage playing the kind of role we’ve all seen Nicolas Cage play before — only with grittier makeup and wardrobe design. As an Oregonian, I appreciated the settings in and around Portland. They felt mostly authentic. Overall, not a bad movie. But not a great one, either.
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