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Tag: Stephen McKinley Henderson

Man on the Inside–Outside In

In this Netflix crowd-pleaser, Man on the Inside  opens with a retired curmudgeonly college professor, Charles (Ted Danson) who has recently lost his wife to dementia.  Out of boredom and grief, he  responds to an ad from a private investigator,   (Lilah Richcreek Estrada).   Someone in an upscale  San Francisco retirement home has had a valuable necklace stolen and her son wants the necklace back. The PI decides to hire Charles not only because he’ll fit in well as one of the few older male residents   but also because he just may have the skills needed to identify the...

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Civil War–Battleground States

In the 2024 film Civil War a van of war correspondents travels undercover from New York City to Washington DC to bear witness to the civil war between a dictator/president  (Nick Offerman of “Parks and Recreations” fame)  and violent secessionists.  There is no explanation of why there is a civil war, who is fighting whom, or what the expected outcome or mission is.  The protagonist is Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst), a renowned war photojournalist, who seems immune to the horrors of wars she was assigned to  photograph in the past.  Her mentor and...

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