Voices from the Past: Channel Islands Invaded: The German Attack on the British Isles in 1940 Told Through Eyewitness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Parliamentary Debates, Memoirs and Diaries
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In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly...
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004)
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In 1942, young Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) lands her dream job -- secretary to Adolf Hitler...
Rasputin's Shadow
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From the bestselling author of THE LAST TEMPLAR, an action-packed adventure thriller of an ancient...
P G Wodehouse: A Biography
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Are there any characters in literature more famous than Jeeves and Wooster? Along with Lord...
The Boys Volume 12: The Bloody Doors Off
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The war is over and the world is saved. The supes have been beaten down so far they'll never get up...
The Mayfly (Charlie Priest #1)
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With the suspense of JEFFERY DEAVER, the tension of THOMAS HARRIS and the gruesomeness of M. J....
Foxtrot in Kandahar: A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War
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Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads, and as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and...
Reconciliation for the Dead
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Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South...
David McK (3425 KP) rated The Tomorrow War (2021) in Movies
Aug 27, 2021 (Updated Nov 23, 2024)
And then the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
Which - aside from the obvious! - is a pity where this was concerned: I do feel that it would have had more of an impact, more of a presence, on the big screen than on the small.
The plot is a take on the usual timey-wimey (to steal a phrase from the BBCs Doctor Who) type of stuff, where visitors from the future (IIRC, about 30 years or so) arrive in the present to recruit their ancestors to fight in an ongoing war against alien 'White Spikes' invaders: a war which humanity is currently losing.
The film then follows Chris Pratt's ex-military (natch) character Dan Forester, who ends up being one of those drafted to fight in the future: I say drafted, as the tour of duty is only meant to be about 7 days long, but most don't make it back or come back horribly (and psychologically) scarred, so - not surprising - most people try to avoid having to go!
Yes, if you think about it too much your head will probably hurt from all the paradoxes involved ...
Yes, it's enjoyable
Lighter-Than-Air: The Life and Times of Wing Commander N.F. Usborne RN, Pioneer of Naval Aviation
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Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining...