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Love and war This is my all-time favourite feel-good, feel-sad, feel-just-pretty-darn-emotional movie. The cast of characters is so alive, you’ll be whisked away in seconds to Britain at war and find yourself hanging on every twist and turn in the tales of three American soldiers who fall in love with local girls as they train for [...] Making the difference A worthy examination of a Nazi who did the right thing. John Rabe (1882-1950) was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation (and massacre) in 1937-38 and, failing in those efforts, his work to protect and succour Chinese civilians [...] strong>Let justice be done, though the heavens fall Following the recent return of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) to the big screen, Stanley Kramer’s masterful examination of war crimes, Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) is once again showing in cinemas, in a gleaming, remastered print. White magic “Snow does not fall to cover the hill, but for every beast to leave its trail…” Fitting tribute Gerald Loftus returns with his thoughts on a gritty, based-on-fact war story… The lump that was in my throat during the 139 minutes of L’Armée du Crime, Robert Guédiguian’s dramatization of the ‘Manouchian Group’ story has subsided, but the emotion remains. This is a good, old-fashioned, based-on-fact war story that needed to be told, [...] The right combination… Jeremy Slater takes a look at Kathryn Bigelow’s latest – she’s a woman who knows about men, it seems.. Quentin’s back to his best Lt. Aldo Raine: The German will be sickened by us, the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. ‘One more person. A person, Stern.’ There are some films that bypass critical carping and can lay claim to being perhaps the greatest ever made. Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) is one such work, and it is my privilege to talk to you about it. [photopress:boy_in_stripped_pyjama.jpg,thumb,alignleft]The eye of childhood Following on from my thoughts on this year’s remake of The Last House on the Left (1972), namely that even a very-well made film of its kind (brutal rape followed by brutal revenge) asks certain questions of viewers as to what exactly they are seeking in terms of entertainment, I believe that [...] [photopress:2004_alexander_004.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Weep, for there are no more turkeys to conquer It just goes to show there’s not always a lot to be gained from being too lazy to get up and find a suitable DVD to slide into the player. Unlike The Constant Gardener (2005), a film which, again, I saw by dint of utter laziness but [...] |
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