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Tag Archives: World War Two
DVD review | Miracle at St Anna
Spike Lee‘s ambitious but flawed war movie Miracle at St Anna seeks to put right a longstanding injustice – Hollywood’s neglect of the African-American contribution to World War Two. As an ageing black veteran says while watching John Wayne’s D-Day … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Harry and co go it alone as the forces of evil close in
A decade has passed since Harry Potter and his wizarding friends and foes made their screen debuts. Ten years during which JK Rowling’s saga has become an unstoppable cinematic juggernaut. If you’ve watched the series since its inception, you’ll have … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Army of Crime – Grim tale of violent resistance in occupied France
Sombre, realistic and grimly faithful to the facts, French World War Two thriller Army of Crime (L’armée du crime) provides a very different view of wartime resistance in occupied France than either the counter-factual cheek of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds
I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading
At the Cinema | Glorious 39
Better known for such TV dramas as The Lost Prince and Perfect Strangers, Stephen Poliakoff returns to the big screen for the first time in almost two decades with Glorious 39, a Hitchcockian thriller about a political conspiracy to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Nighy, Glorious 39, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff, World War Two
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Win Stephen Poliakoff Box Sets on DVD
This competition has now closed. To celebrate the release of Stephen Poliakoff’s tense new thriller, Glorious 39, we’re giving you the chance to re-visit some of his best work by giving away 4 Stephen Poliakoff Box Sets on DVD, courtesy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Nighy, Glorious 39, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff, World War Two
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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile
“Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Apache, Brad Pitt, Cannes, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Diane Kruger, dirty dozen, Eli Roth, Ennio Morricone, enzo castellari, Ernst Lubitsch, Hitler, Inglourious Basterds, jackie brown, Jewish-Americans, Leni Riefenstahl, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Nazis, quentin tarantino, Sergio Leone, Sherlock Holmes, spaghetti western, Third Reich, World War Two
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Out on DVD | Valkyrie
Despite the looming presence of two major stumbling blocks, Valkyrie, Bryan Singer’s true-story movie about a plot to kill Hitler at the height of World War Two, makes a surprisingly effective wartime thriller. The first obstacle in the viewer’s path … Continue reading
The Best view | Glossy French tales of love and war – Female Agents & Priceless on DVD
‘Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once…’ No! Banish all memories of ‘Allo ‘Allo. In the stirring French wartime action film about derring-do in occupied France, Female Agents, Sophie Marceau looks nothing like Michelle of the Resistance, even … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Allo 'Allo, Amélie, Audrey Tautou, Billy Wilder, D-Day, Déborah François, Female Agents, Gad Elmaleh, James Bond, Jean-Paul Salomé, Lise Villameur, Nazis, Pierre Salvadori, Priceless, SOE, Sophie Marceau, Winston Churchill, World Is Not Enough, World War Two
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Couch Potato Pickings – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
On BBC1 tonight at 10.35pm In case you didn’t know, a Nicolas Cage film came out at UK cinemas on Friday – Bangkok Dangerous. It’s the Pang Brothers’ remake of their 1999 action thriller of the same name. There’s not … Continue reading
