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Political Correspondent for Reuters Creator, Nuclear Theater on Substack Movies, politics, writing https://open.substack.com/pub/nucleartheater?r=1e8g9&utm_medium=ios

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Logan's Run: Seeking sanctuary You can't control what imprints upon you as a child. Everyone has their ur-text, their foundational document. This is one of mine.

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29.12.2025 04:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Apollo 13: Trust the process Ron Howard's film celebrates sacrifice and teamwork and harkens back to a time when our heroes were defined by their training and smarts as much as their courage.

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12.12.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Right Stuff: No bucks, no Buck Rogers "Takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially when it's on TV."

The Right Stuff: No bucks, no Buck Rogers

My latest for NUCLEAR THEATER. Subscribe today! #filmsky #cinema #film #Blueskyfilm

17.11.2025 18:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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James Oliphant | Substack Reuters political correspondent; spare-time film writer

Check out my Substack devoted to films of the Cold War. #filmsky #cinema #ColdWar #NuclearTheater

08.11.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#filmsky #movies #film #nucleartheater

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Them! Ant-agonists 'When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict."

Them! Ant-agonists

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23.10.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Three Days of the Condor: Freebird "You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth."

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26.09.2025 23:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Beyond the stone cold classics, the two Redford films I would most recommend are DOWNHILL RACER and THE CANDIDATE. #filmsky

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First ballot Hall of Famer. #FilmSky

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Judges will end up throwing many of these cases out and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are civil suits that the government will end up losing and paying up.

21.08.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In a 1983 opinion by Ted Olson(!), DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that assigning JAG lawyers to serve as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys violated a statute that bans military officers from exercising the duties of a civil office.

Then, Congress authorized it.

This is dumbβ€”but legal.

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Watching THE HIT in honor of the great Terence Stamp. #filmsky

18.08.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nuclear Theater | James Oliphant | Substack Examining the films of the Cold War and the U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms race, with a side dish of history and politics. Click to read Nuclear Theater, by James Oliphant, a Substack publication with hundreds of...

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Subscribe to NUCLEAR THEATER today. A newsletter about films of the Cold War and growing up in the 80s. Let’s see you, Gen X!

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Good Night, and Good Luck: Gatekeepers β€œThe fault dear Brutus lies not in the stars but in ourselves.”

A film for our times. And all times.

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Trump’s war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ’pro bono’ work for underdogs Major law firms are scaling back the free work they do for advocacy groups fighting the government in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks on the profession. Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.

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The Man with One Red Shoe: Hanks a lot "What are the odds of the Russians attacking on a Thursday night?!?"

Hanks for nothing? Nuclear Theater takes on the long-forgotten THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE. #filmsky

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21.07.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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JFK: The end of the innocence "You all got to start thinking a different level - like the CIA does. Now, we're through the looking glass here, people. White is black, and black is white."

Oliver Stone took us through the looking glass. Today, we live there. #filmsky #nucleartheater

09.07.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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JFK: The end of the innocence "You all got to start thinking a different level - like the CIA does. Now, we're through the looking glass here, people. White is black, and black is white."

The latest for NUCLEAR THEATER. The reality bending JFK from Oliver Stone. #filmsky

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06.07.2025 22:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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World Without End: Down in the hole I am a person of precious few skills, but I think I would recognize the planet I grew up living on, even if it has mutants.

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On the Beach: The last place on Earth "There isn't time. No time to love. Nothing to remember. Nothing worth remembering."

Waiting for the end of the world. This week on NUCLEAR THEATER.

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The Road Warrior: A last chance power drive A movie where gas is expensive and life is cheap. But surprise! It's not set in modern-day America.

The Road Warrior: A last chance power drive --my latest for NUCLEAR THEATER. Subscribe today!

02.05.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Road Warrior: A last chance power drive A movie where gas is expensive and life is cheap. But surprise! It's not set in modern-day America.

The Road Warrior: A last chance power drive --my latest for NUCLEAR THEATER. Subscribe today!

02.05.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One, Two, Three: Buying the world a Coke In 1961 Berlin, the situation was hopeless but not serious.

A movie that deserved a better fate.
#filmsky #nucleartheater #Movies #ColdWar

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Sitting out Liberation Day

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Crimson Tide: The message is authentic The post-Cold War sub thriller may be more relevant today than it was 30 years ago. PLUS: My Top 10 Gene Hackman films!

Name your favorite Hackman movies.

#blueskyfilm #film #nucleartheater

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Asteroid City: Fetishizing the Fifties Wes Anderson turns nuclear terror and 50s paranoia into one of his still-life dioramas. It doesn’t work but manages to evoke a nostalgia for a time that never quite existed.

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03.03.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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2010: To infinity and back again "We have so much to ask. I have a feeling that the answers are bigger than the questions."

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