The 1973 Indian film Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket] is director Satyajit Ray’s moving look at the horrifying effects of the Bengali famine in 1943, viewed in microcosm through the lives of a warm-hearted doctor-teacher Gangacharan […]
‘A hero of war. A casualty of peace. With only one hope for survival. His son.’ Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1988 drama Distant Thunder is a well-played and likeable, but clichéd and over-sentimental Canadian tearjerker, though […]
Director Jim Gillespie’s 2002 crime film D-Tox stars Sylvester Stallone as FBI agent Jake Malloy on the trail of a serial killer targeting cops, who becomes alcoholic and attends a remote detox clinic rehabilitation camp […]
MGM’s 1950 Technicolor film Kim is a spectacular adventure classic based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel about an orphan boy (Dean Stockwell), recruited as a spy by the British for derring-do in 1880s India. Director Victor […]
Director Tay Garnett’s 1951 MGM black and white film Soldiers Three is a minor-league, though entertaining Gunga Din-style comedy adventure tale, derived from Rudyard Kipling short stories, with Indian location shots from Kim (1950) helping things […]
‘Alone, far from home, and far from justice, he has three days to learn the truth about a murder… and the truth is a story you won’t forget.’ Director Norman Jewison’s 1984 film A Soldier’s […]
‘For one brief weekend, their love was all that mattered.’ Director Larry Parr’s conscientious, well-acted, low-key, touching little 1989 World War Two romantic drama A Soldier’s Tale is based on the novel by M K […]
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