All posts tagged "WWII"
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WHITE BIRD – Review
Helen Mirren stars as a French Jewish grandmother who survived the Holocaust in the family drama WHITE BIRD....
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LEE – Review
The name Lee Miller may not be familiar but you have most likely seen her photos, some of...
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THE SHADOW OF THE DAY – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
THE SHADOW OF THE DAY is a hauntingly beautiful tale of love and sacrifice in wartime, a story...
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ONE LIFE – Review
The moving ONE LIFE throws a spotlight on a British man, Nicholas Winton, who has been called the...
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Review
Aside from the serious somber Oscar contenders, and a few action blockbusters, the end-of-the-year holidays see the release...
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MY NAME IS SARA – Review
How many 13-year-olds have the self-discipline to pretend to be someone else for two years, without once revealing...
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OPERATION MINCEMEAT – Review
“Truth is stranger than fiction” stories are often the best, and the true story behind the British WWII...
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MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR – Review
Once again the years encompassing the Second World War prove to be a fertile ground for filmmakers, and...
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AMERICAN TRAITOR: THE TRIAL OF AXIS SALLY – Review
Movie History 101 will soon be in the Summer Session at the local multiplex (or for those still...
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RESISTANCE – Review
Who knew legendary mime Marcel Marceau was a member of the French Resistance as a very young man?...
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THE SONG OF NAMES – Review
People today (well always but more so now) really enjoying having lots of choices, be it food (as...
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RED JOAN – Review
Judi Dench plays a widowed retired librarian living a quiet suburban life who is suddenly arrested for spying...
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THE INVISIBLES (2017) – Review
From the rich historical archives of WWII comes another true tale of struggle and survival, when Hitler and...
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MEMOIR OF WAR – Review
Melanie Thierry gives a haunting performance in director Emmanuel Finkiel’s finely-crafted MEMOIR OF WAR. This powerful, beautifully-shot French-language...
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THE CATCHER WAS A SPY – Review
THE CATCHER WAS A SPY is a strange slice of history, about a real-life Jewish Major League baseball...
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DARKEST HOUR – Review
Gary Oldman gives an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright DARKEST HOUR, a riveting drama...
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FANNY’S JOURNEY – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
Sunday, June 4, at 7 PM, Plaza Frontenac Cinema Belgium; in French and German with English subtitles; 94...
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CHURCHILL – Review
Brian Cox portrays Winston Churchill in a dramatization of the events just prior to the D-Day invasion of...
