It seemed only appropriate that I usher in the winter months with the bitter Cold War thriller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, based on the best-selling novel by John le Carré. Available for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK from Eureka Entertainment, seven-time Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton, is at […]
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I had seen ten out of the twenty-seven features directed by six-time Oscar winner, Billy Wilder; his third film, Five Graves to Cairo brings my total to eleven. Out now on Blu-ray in the UK from Eureka Entertainment, this war-time classic follows a British soldier stuck in a remote hotel in Egypt who comes to
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Historical accuracy aside, classic Hollywood war pictures were always well-intended in telling stories of triumph and victory, mostly over Nazi-occupied Europe and while many decades have passed, there’s still an appetite for the heroism of World War II. In 1969, just shy of twenty-five years since the most destructive conflict had ended, it was a
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