Posts Tagged ‘war’

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Guy Ritchie’s second outing with Conan Doyle’s finest sleuth is out on DVD and Blu-ray this week and overall it’s a thoroughly entertaining adventure romp. Fans of the first movie will find much to enjoy here and the sense of fun established in the 2009 original remains very much the order of the...
May 11th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

4 Days in May (2011)

4 Days in May (2011)
It is the very last days of 1945. The Russians are swarming Germany. The routed German soldiers are trekking west and north, because they prefer to surrender to the British rather than the Russians. In this movie, a tiny contingent of eight Russian soldiers arrive at a tiny and almost abandoned German...
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Hotel Lux (2011)

Hotel Lux (2011)
The ways in which the modern-day Germans deal with the atrocities committed by the Nazis in WWII can be complicated. Most Germans are very ashamed of what happened, and this is manifested in many different ways, ranging from refusal to talk about it and to searing soul-searching about its causes. But...
April 21st, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

La Grande Illusion (1937)

La Grande Illusion (1937)
*** Warning ‘ere be spoilers *** Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion was first released in 1937 as storm clouds were once again gathering over Europe. Rightly considered to be a cinematic masterpiece, La Grande Illusion is a powerful and provoking look at the senselessness of war. The title itself...
April 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews, Feature | Read More

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Touching comedy dramas set in concentration camps are few and far between (I’m sure most of us can maybe think of this one and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . well that’s me all out of candidates) so we should be thankful that Life Is [...]
April 5th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Win in our Act of Valour competition

Win in our Act of Valour competition
To celebrate the release of Act of Valour which is in cinemas now (released 23rd March) we are giving you the chance to win some great prizes. An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valour stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary...
March 27th, 2012 | Competitions | Read More

1911 Revolution (2011)

1911 Revolution (2011)
Jackie Chan, the icon of kung fu comedy, is getting to be an elderly gentleman. Since the mid-to-late ’00s, he has retreated from the physically demanding roles and begun working on more realistic fare, including historical movies. He did a fantastic job in Little Big Soldier (2010), and now he...
March 20th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

In Darkness (2012)

In Darkness (2012)
In Darkness, from veteran Polish Director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) is the extraordinary true story of  Leopold Socha. A simple Polish sewer worker in the town of Lvov during the Nazi occupation, who hides and protects a group of escaping Jews from near certain death in the city’s rat...
March 14th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Front Line (2011)

The Front Line (2011)
In terms of coverage at the UK box office, the Korean War is not particularly well known when compared with other wars such as Vietnam or the two Gulf Wars. The conflict raged primarily from 1950 to 1953 and in effect marked the start of the Cold War. The Korean peninsula has been occupied by [...]
February 23rd, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

There Be Dragons (2011)

There Be Dragons (2011)
There Be Dragons is not the return of Roland Joffé. The name probably doesn’t mean anything to you. But this director made two brilliant movies in the 1980s, namely The Killing Fields and The Mission. These were intelligent, sensitive movies, which dealt with political, religious and humanitarian...
February 16th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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