Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming

Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is the 7th movie in the Harry Potter franchise. In this chapter, the evil wizard Voldemort (played by Frank Langella) takes the form of the 37th President of the United States, who has -- at the movie's start -- resigned from office and retired to his fortress in California. The poncey young dilettante Harry Potter (Michael Sheen) arrives to challenge Voldemort to a duel of words, aided by his longtime friends Ron (Sam Rockwell) and Hermoine (Oliver Platt). Harry's job is to make Voldemort admit the slightest bit of wrongdoing in the attempt to cover-up a covert Washington D.C. robbery, as if that absolves the wizard of all his nefarious and jowly forms of evil.

The action is kept fairly sedate and the tone is far different and darker than the earlier Potter movies. Special effects are toned down, and generally are applied only to Michael Sheen's wardrobe and sideburns. Kevin Bacon's adam's apple also stars, in a breakout role as special assistant to Kevin Bacon.

Supposedly, this movie was based on real life interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon. If that's so, I find it strange that movie contains almost no homoerotic subtext between the two characters. That seems like a poor -- and historically inaccurate -- choice by the filmmakers.