Word: spader
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Young Daniel Ellsberg (James Spader) is one of the Rand Corp.'s best and brightest, writing papers for the think tank that advocate brinkmanship and "the political uses of madness" in the cold war. In 1964 his work takes him to the Pentagon, where he sees madness in action. He learns that the entire war policy, in effect, is a mess swept under a carpet of inflated enemy body counts. Asked to help write a history of the war effort, he finds that the U.S. has remained hopelessly entangled because no President wanted to be the first U.S. leader...
...Brattle Theatre continues its ongoing series, “Not Nominated (By the Academy),”a selection of critically acclaimed movies that did not receive a nomination for next month’s Oscars. The Brattle’s next feature from the series, Secretary stars James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal and is a dark comedy about finding love through S & M. In considering possible reasons for Secretary’s Oscar snub, the Brattle asks the obvious: “Could it be the spanking?” Secretary screens March...
...couple of typing errors, and the next thing she (Maggie Gyllenhaal) knows, she's bent across the boss's desk, awaiting punishment. He (James Spader) is a sadist who sometimes lacks the courage of his convictions. But that's all right with his employee. She has enough affection for pain and humiliation for both of them. It may not be quite so all right with viewers, though. Writer-director Shainberg seems to be aiming for a dark comedy, but mostly his movie is coy without being funny, ugly without being truly transgressive, stupid when it needs to be smart...