‘The Brink Of War’ Finds A Superhero In Ronald Reagan

Among the DC and Marvel movies that have hogged much of the attention in theaters this year, “Supergirl” and “Spider-Man” among them, my favorite superhero movie has flown under the radar.

Filmmaker Michael Russell Gunn’s “The Brink of War” contains no galactic skirmishes or city-leveling explosions.

Instead, it takes us back to 1986, when the ...