The very first Jack Ryan movie I saw was The Hunt For Red October. I didn’t know it at the time, but this would also be the best Jack Ryan movie. If Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is looked at in a vacuum, it is a fairly serviceable action thriller. If one takes the movie on…
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Jack Ryan is very much the face of the Tom Clancy novels that you see in the movies, and even though the actors have changed and the franchise isn’t as storied as James Bond, the character itself has continued to thrive. From Alex Baldwin, Harrison Ford, to Ben Affleck and now Chris Pine, one way…
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” It seems fitting to start off with a quote by Shakespeare, especially since that’s what it looks like when you watch Anna Karenina directed by Joe Wright. The film may be set in Russia during the revolution, but Wright has reduced the…
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