Tag Archives: World War Two

Film review | Red Tails – George Lucas’s cherished WW2 fighter pilot movie goes down in flames

Posted on 7 June 2012 by Jason Best

The stirring World War Two story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American pilots who overcame racism to become the US air force’s first black aviators, is ill served by Red Tails, a desperately corny action movie from producer George Lucas. … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Miracle at St Anna

Posted on 27 June 2011 by Jason Best

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 →

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Harry and co go it alone as the forces of evil close in

Posted on 19 November 2010 by Jason Best

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 →

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Out on DVD | Army of Crime – Grim tale of violent resistance in occupied France

Posted on 8 February 2010 by Jason Best

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 →

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Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds

Posted on 5 December 2009 by Jason Best

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 →

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At the Cinema | Glorious 39

Posted on 27 November 2009 by Jason Best

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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Win Stephen Poliakoff Box Sets on DVD

Posted on 27 November 2009 by Jason Best

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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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile

Posted on 19 August 2009 by Jason Best

“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 act … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Valkyrie

Posted on 8 June 2009 by Jason Best

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 →

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The Best view | Glossy French tales of love and war – Female Agents & Priceless on DVD

Posted on 13 October 2008 by Jason Best

‘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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