Movies My Dad Likes: Tell Know One [Nil Le Dis a Personne]

Jun 03, 2013 No Comments by

Contains Spoilers. I can’t pretend to be a lover of foreign films and it has to be something really special for me to read the sub-titles. The French production of Nil Le Dis a Personne (Tell No One) is just that. The film is closely based on the book of the same name, written by [...]

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Movies My Dad Likes: Eye of the Needle [1981]

Mar 12, 2013 No Comments

Eye of the Needle is a cracking movie thriller based on the best-selling novel by Ken Follett. The story, although fictional, is built around operation Fortitude the deception of the phoney army created in East Anglia to fool the Germans that the D-Day invasion would come at Calais rather than the Normandy beaches. The phoney [...]

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Movies My Dad Likes: The Mission [1986]

Feb 19, 2013 No Comments

If you have two hours available without any distraction then The Mission is a great movie to watch. A historical action film with a religious plot it captures the gulf between the civilized European colonialists and the underdeveloped indigenous population which they subdued. It takes place around the spectacular Iguazu Falls on the borders of [...]

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Movies My Dad Likes: Five For Christmas – Monty Python’s And Now For Something Completely Different

Dec 22, 2012 No Comments

Someone in my close-knit circle will for certain receive, as a present, a made for Christmas, modern-day Comedian, laugh when I say f***, overpriced and puerile DVD which after the watershed hour I will be expected to endure. Mind you I won’t mind so much if it’s Al Murray as at least he promotes real [...]

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