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✨ a film for every year of my life ✨ | WarGames (1983) dir. John Badham

What is the primary goal? You should know, Professor. You programmed me.  Oh, come on… What is the primary goal? To win the game. 

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WarGames will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 20 via Shout Factory. The 1983 sci-fi action thriller is directed by John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Dracula (1979)).

Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy star. Lawrence Lasker & Walter F. Parkes (Sneakers) wrote the script, with uncredited work by Walon Green (Eraser, RoboCop 2).

WarGames has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR. Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director John Badham and writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes

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Inside NORAD: Cold War Fortress featurette

Attack of the Hackers featurette

Tic Tac Toe: A True Story featurette

Theatrical trailer

Computer hacker David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and master even the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportions — World War III! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent... and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

Pre-order WarGames.

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KILSOM Valentines (Round One)

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John Wood - The Death of Abel.

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Transformers: Mosaic #326 - "Impossible"

Originally posted on January 7th, 2009

Story, Art - John Wood

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wada sez: Just a little Bumblebee character spotlight, simple as that!

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But more actors succeed as Lear than not and, rather than itemise them, I have picked out those who have enriched our understanding of the play: acting, at best, is a form of practical criticism and teaches you more than the textbooks ever could. The stock image of Lear when I started going to the theatre was of some Blakeian Ancient of Days tottering around a Stonehenge-like set but that was forever banished by Paul Scofield’s performance in Peter Brook’s 1962 production. For a start Scofield was only 40 when he played Lear: roughly the same age as Richard Burbage in the first known performance in 1606.

More importantly, Scofield gave us a testy crew-cut autocrat who never demanded our sympathy even if he ultimately gained it. It was Brook’s idea to present the play with a moral neutrality so that Goneril and Regan reasonably objected to the presence of Lear’s obstreperous knights. But it was Scofield, with that voice that could cut through metal, who showed us that Lear was driven by a desire to punish his daughters: “I shall go mad!”, as Tynan noted, became a threat rather than a pathetic prediction.

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Orlando (1992) Sally Potter

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Playbill for the 1974 Broadhurst Theatre production of the play "Sherlock Holmes" (original title "Sherlock Holmes: the Strange Case of Miss Faulkner") written by Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette in 1899, featuring John Wood and Philip Locke as Holmes and Moriarty

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Shadowlands (1993), dir. Richard Attenborough.

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Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023) Date de sortie : 06/04/2023 Réalisateur : Nick Kozakis Scénario : Alexander Angliss-Wilson, Sarah Baker, Jason Buckley Avec : Dan Ewing, Tim Pocock, John Wood

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The Bishop of Aquila in Ladyhawke (1985)

Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1996)

AKA John Wood playing heartless men of the cloth.

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John Wood is on the repeat of spicks and specks tonight. Patrick Tyneman lives!

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War Games (1983)

I like to think of War Games as a spiritual sequel to Dr. Strangelove. A Matthew Broderick film ushered in the same sentence as the Kubrick masterpiece?! I know. It sounds nuts, but hear me out. After watching How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, you take away that no single man should have the power to declare nuclear war regardless of what safety protocols may be in place to prevent catastrophe from ensuing. With this film, writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes complete that idea and argue that it is too much for a machine as well.

Tests have proven that even when ordered, 22% of NORAD staff members would not launch a nuclear missile strike. This convinces Dr. John McKittrick (Dabney Coleman) to automate the process, granting control to WOPR (War Operation Plan Response): a learning supercomputer that runs continuous war simulations. When high school students David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) and Jennifer Mack (Ally Sheedy) hack into the WOPR and, unaware of what they’ve discovered, decide to play a “game” with it, the computer begins counting down to a real-life war.

Part teenage drama, part cautionary tale, War Games may sound impossible, but when you see it in action everything is frighteningly real. The security measures implemented by NORAD actually wind up causing the problem to happen. Nothing on the screen David stumbles upon indicates that it’s anything but a video game (the screen is blank and simply asks for a password). When he researches the programmer who created it and finds an entry point, there are no warnings to tell him “Thermonuclear War” is the real deal. While the adults scramble to find an explanation for why their screens show an impending attack, none of them accept the simple truth that it’s all a giant mistake. How could it be? The system was built to be flawless. Two unsuspecting teenagers are the only ones who know what’s going on, but what are they supposed to do about it? Yesterday, he was impressing her by hacking into the school system to tamper with their grades. Now, they’re about to die before they’ve even had the chance to live.

Every action logically leads into the next with no room for error. One tiny mistake might set a chain of dominoes that will end the world. Just when you think every possibility has dried up, David comes up with a sway to squeak out of the pinch he’s in and hope is renewed. You breathe a sigh of relief, but it’s a brief one. The weight of this seemingly inescapable scenario is felt again in no time.

War Games is an intelligent film. It has elements of a teenage adventure/drama, but it’s much more. This is a cautionary tale that will make you think, with a great screenplay that’s sure to have everyone watching white-knuckled. (On DVD, May 4, 2018)