Month: July 2025

“War is showbusiness.”-Conrad Brean ‘Wag the Dog' is a 1997 political satire examining a clandestine operation by the US Govt to stage a war in Albania, as a misdirect to distract from the sitting President’s romantic advances on an underage girl while in the Oval Office. Hello hath no fury like ensuing public outrage. It turns out the 24 hour…

 Directed by Brad Silberling and starring Sir Ben Kingsley alongside newcomer Hera Hilmar; ‘An Ordinary Man’ manages to successfully balance two leads, one a seasoned veteran, and the other a burgeoning neophyte. Hera Hilmar: a relative unknown when compared to the bigger names in Hollywood is the central focus of the story; her character providing a mirror into Kingsley’s enigmatic…