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Formula radugi [Formula for a Rainbow] (1966)

That may seem like a curious title for a goofy Soviet robot comedy, but it refers to something far stranger, one of the weirder ideas I’ve seen in a Science Fiction film. The hero of our story, an obsessive young scientist named Vladimir Bantikov who works at The Institute of Intractable Problems, is frustrated that […]

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Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

I hate it when this happens. I mean, here we have this elegant World War II drama which has this solid feeling of authenticity (I’m not enough of an expert to speak for all the details — and there is at least one I’m skeptical of — but the general impression is convincing). Which then […]

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