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Entries Tagged as 'William Boyd'

A Good Man in Africa (1994, Bruce Beresford)

September 15th, 2006 No Comments

A Good Man in Africa is about the British practicing a modified form of the age-old British diplomacy in Africa (duh) in modernity. As such, when I saw John Lithgow’s name in the credits, I did not expect him to be playing a Brit. However, Lithgow does play one and he does so quite poorly. […]

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Chaplin (1992, Richard Attenborough)

April 19th, 2006 No Comments

Just today, I met someone who recently watched The Postman and thought it was a good film. She’s probably the third or fourth person (I think the third) who I’ve met–since 1997–who agreed it was a good film. Though Chaplin has five years on that one, I’ve never met anyone else who thinks it’s good. […]

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