Unbroken, the wartime drama story of the harrowing experience of Louis Zamperini at the hands of the Japanese during the second World War, is the film for U in the Alphabet challenge this year. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie with a screenplay partly written by the Coen Brothers. Zamperini, a talented runner pre war who had participated in
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Hacksaw Ridge is the new film from director Mel Gibson, starring Andrew Garfield in a true story of incredible heroism during World War 2 with this biopic war movie. The film centres on Desmond Doss, played by Garfield, a young man who enlists into the US Army during World War 2 from his hometown of Virginia. A religious man, Doss
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Jackman is back as Logan aka. Mr Wolverine in the 2013 film The Wolverine – the 2nd standalone film featuring the character in the X-Men series. James Mangold is at the steering wheel for the film (for me the best of his previous work is Cop Land but also includes Girl, Interrupted, Knight and Day and Identity). Screenplay is by
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For Day ‘V’ of the Alphabet challenge, its to Japanese Anime ‘Vexille’ from 2007. Vexille is a futuristic tale set in 2077, about the US based ‘Sword’ defence group that are conducting an investigation into Japan and the Daiwa Heavy Industry corporation. In recent years, Japan has increasingly withdrawn from engagement with the rest of the world, at the same
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