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Monthly Archives: February 2023

A Spy Among Friends (Miniseries, 2023) TV Review

Brotherhood. Fraternity. Friendship. These are words – and concepts – that don’t usually pop into our heads when we think about spy movies or TV shows. Indeed, the words that... Read More

Hard Target Unrated – Jean Woo’s Tour de Force | AJP #12

When action filmmaking legend John Woo finally decided to head to Hollywood, he chose Hard Target (1993) as his first English-language project. Then he was paired with another icon of... Read More

Plane (2023) Mini Movie Review

I’m not going to lie, I was tempted to start this review with a line like, “Plane is anything but plain,” or something of that ilk. Thinking about it now,... Read More

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Season Three, 2022) Mini TV Review

For one reason or another, presumably COVID and/or John Krasinksi’s booming fame, it’s taken over three years for season three of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan to release. To be honest,... Read More

Echo 3 (Season One, 2022-23) TV Review

Within the last 15 years, screenwriter Mark Boal has written three first-rate military/political thrillers: The Hurt Locker (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and Triple Frontier (2019). There’s no denying that... Read More