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Nebbish 60-ish Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) is a railway fan. It’s 1980, and he sports his big, plastic frames and a fuzzy moustache, making him look weirdly like a...
For starters, I couldn’t quite tell whether Clooney’s latest directorial effort – an amiable but somewhat forgettable WWII picture about a rag-tag group of art-loving guys tasked with recovering,...
In time for the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Warner Bros. has released two Blu-ray collections of World War II themed films. Both come in nice, hard-cover slip cases, where...
At the start of World War II, famed Hollywood director George Stevens (Woman of the Year, A Place in the Sun, Shane), like several of his film-world cohorts, volunteered...
All along I’ve been thinking that Defiance is an insufficient name for a film about surviving the Holocaust. It’s too nondescript, too generic–the movie could be about anything, really....
Much in the same way the original World War II footage is almost seamlessly interwoven with the narrative story of this curiously forgotten film, it is almost as difficult...
When I had heard that The Book Thief was being made into a movie, I pitied the director who would be faced with the challenge of adapting such a...
I have no idea why it took me so long to see the 1946 Best Picture Oscar-winner The Best Years of Our Lives. I, like many movie-lovers, went through...
Perhaps showing what a timeless classic it is, Casablanca has provoked different reactions in me depending on when in my life I saw the film. I first watched it...
Hanover Street was recommended to me by the same co-worker who told me to watch 3 Days of the Condor. I cannot believe she felt the need to qualify...
Baz Luhrmann, I can see what you were trying to do in the epic Australia, a Technicolor homage to your beloved homeland. A swarthy scoundrel clashes with a frosty...
The Minivers are your average middle-class family in England. That is, the classic Hollywood-type of “middle class”, where Mother is gorgeous and looks like Greer Garson, Father smokes a...
