The latest review is of the 2016 World War 2 thriller, Allied. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, the film follows two spies as they initially unite to complete a mission in Casablanca, Morocco, only to then fall in love and get married. It is directed by Steven Wright (previously wrote Locke, Eastern Promises, and
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One of the most famous individuals of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, is the focus for the new historical drama Darkest Hour – with director Joe Wright. Set in a 3 week period during 1940, we see Churchill coming to power and near immediately facing the pressures from his own party to seek a potential compromise with the German army,
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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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