Movie Category: War

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Monday 14th March, 2022

Jojo Rabbit

What a great little film! Although it’s pretty easy to see why it sat on top of a screenplay blacklist for years (getting made only when Taika Waititi became one of the hottest properties...

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Saturday 22nd January, 2022

Bit of intense war drama here: and definitely not a PR piece for the allies, with Jeremy Irons’s Chamberlain coming across as something of a tit. Some nice stuff about adolescent bonding overcoming contemporary...

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Sunday 11th July, 2021

Midway

Having just listened to Dan Carlin’s EXCELLENT Hardcore History podcast on the battle of Midway, I was very interested to see how it would go with the modern Hollywood treatment. Short answer: skip the...

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Sunday 3rd January, 2021

1917

Atmospheric World War 1 drama seemingly captured in a single shot (it wasn’t, but it seemed to have been), with a cast that was either great actors or less-great actors whose presence made you...