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Tag: War Film

The Imitation Game (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Here there be spoilers:In the early ‘50s, Detective Robert Nock (Rory Kinnear) is called to the house of eccentric...

Battle at Bloody Beach (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A low-budget offering from 20th Century Fox, Battle at Bloody Beach is notable as the only WW2-set movie Audie...

’71 (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.Pvt Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is first glimpsed amidst a squad of young soldiers, being put through their paces...

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

One of the bigger busts amongst 2016’s rollout of Oscar-chasing dramas, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk certainly earns its...

Quebec (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Yes folks, Canadian history hits the big screen in all its glory. What a rip-roaring project this one must have...

Men Go To Battle (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Francis (David Maloney) and Henry Mellon (Tim Morton) are brothers who own a farm in rural Kentucky, during the...

Action in the North Atlantic (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Blockbuster action, 1943 style. I first saw this film as a kid, and some of the more vividly cruel...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Critically dismissed and a scant commercial success at the time of its release, Tora! Tora! Tora! marked 20th Century...

Dances With Wolves (1990) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Widely acclaimed at the time as both a revival of the grand movie epic and a revivification of the...

Lone Survivor (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Some true stories, when we hear them, seem so dramatic, so improbable, so deviously yet accidentally perfect that they...

Civic Mythology in Cinema: a sequence from Gallipoli (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

An academic piece.Amidst the visual and narrative sprawl of Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, the sequence in which the...

Where Eagles Dare (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Where Eagles Dare, adapted by Alistair MacLean from his own novel and directed by Brian G. Hutton, looks a...