Can you believe Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, David Niven, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Mr Bronson from Grange Hill were in the same movie once? We can’t – and this is before you get to lovely old Roger Moore playing a Wehrmacht captain! It can only be Escape to Athena, […]
War
Rebel (2022) A Devastating Descent Into The Poisonous Spiral Of War And Propaganda (Review)
War is an inevitability brought on in a world ruled by rivalry. The constant push for human beings to be pulled apart and divided against each other in an arbitrary battle of differences consistently reaches a boiling point that can only end in violence. Whether it’s religion, cultural differences or […]
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) (Cinema Review)
Donbass: Episodes of lunacy in Eastern Ukraine (Review)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) A British Stiff-Upper Lip Vision of Heroism (Review)
Directed by Lewis Gilbert, the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck! tells the true-life story of the Royal Navy’s mission to track down and destroy the eponymous pride of the German fleet and scourge of Atlantic shipping. Making it’s UK Blu-ray debut on the Eureka Classics label, it’s a distinctive film […]
Youth (2017) Part political treatise, part dance movie, and part horror of War movie (Review)
Back to 1942 is one of the bleakest movies of recent years, Feng Xiaogang directed a horrifying presentation on the human cost of war. The 2012 movie showed an invading army turning their weapons on civilians, people selling their children just so said offspring can eat and enough self-sacrifice to […]
They Came To A City (1944) Dearden and JB Priestley meet for an unwieldy thought experiment (Review)
4-Panel 133 – The Unfathomable Anatomy of 1990s Comics
The Wall (2017) a War movie with an element of Carpenteresque B movie about it (Review)
Thankfully not a film about Trump’s intentions regarding the US/Mexico border, The Wall is, in fact, a tense, psychological war movie from director Doug Liman. The Wall is essentially a three-hander (though in truth the vast chunk of its running time sees it operate more or less as a two-hander) […]