Tag: Keira Knightley

Black Doves–”Slow Horses” meets “The Americans”?

Written by Diana Paul on December 30, 2024. Posted in Television reviews. 2 Comments on Black Doves–”Slow Horses” meets “The Americans”?

The six-episode Netflix mini-series Black Doves is being promoted as a Christmas holiday spy thriller, full of such fun scenes as explosions, intense gun-fight street battles and stylish upper-class British banter to mix up with the tinsel and ornaments. Helen Webb (Keira Knightley of “Pirates of the Carribean”, “Pride and...

“The Aftermath” (2019) — Unforeseen Consequences

Written by Diana Paul on June 29, 2020. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “The Aftermath” (2019) — Unforeseen Consequences

Hamburg is in ruins five months after Germany surrenders in 1946. The Aftermath opens with scenes of German residents starving and displaced in bombed-out neighborhoods. Now, they must face Brits and Americans bossing them around their native land, requisitioning their most luxurious homes for their own use during the...

“Colette”–A Woman Ahead of Her Time

Written by diana on October 22, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on “Colette”–A Woman Ahead of Her Time

Guest reviewer: Barbara Donsky, author of the memoir, Veronica’s Grave “Colette,” opens in the countryside of rural France as we meet the young Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) at home in Burgundy. In short order, a successful Parisian writer known as “Willy” (Dominic West) pays a visit to...

Tag: Keira Knightley

Black Doves–”Slow Horses” meets “The Americans”?

“The Aftermath” (2019) — Unforeseen Consequences

“Colette”–A Woman Ahead of Her Time

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