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    55 Days

    55 Days

    Howard Brenton

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    A gripping historical drama that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. December 1648. The...

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Movie Metropolis (309 KP) rated Gods and Monsters (1998) in Movies

Jun 10, 2019  
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
1998 | Drama
8
8.0 (4 Ratings)
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McKellen teamed up with director Bill Condon in 1998 for Gods & Monsters. This period drama recounts the partly fictionalised last days of the life of film director James Whale, whose experience of war in the First World War is a central theme.

Although criticised for being overly-simplistic, McKellen’s performance received rave reviews, and he was nominated for his first Academy Award in the Best Actor category. Unfortunately, he didn’t go on to win this time around, but it remained a highlight in a career filled with fabulous work.

https://moviemetropolis.net/2019/05/25/top-5-ian-mckellen-performances/
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Fury (2014) in Movies

Feb 13, 2018  
Fury (2014)
Fury (2014)
2014 | Action, Drama, War
8
7.9 (47 Ratings)
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Tanks for Nothing
Good-looking but very, very violent war movie with a convincingly horrible depiction of life as a tanker during the dying days of the Second World War. In time-honoured style a green young recruit joins Brad Pitt's crew, loses his innocence, earns respect of his fellows.

Movie can't quite seem to decide what it wants to be - the characters are portrayed as brutalised victims, executing prisoners, and there's an extraordinarily long and uncomfortable sequence in which they avail themselves of the hospitality of some recently-liberated German women, but on the other hand it concludes with them heroically mowing down Nazis by the dozen. In the end it's not really clear whether Fury thinks that War is Hell or not, but David Ayer always tells this kind of guys-in-extremis story well.
  
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Emma Tucker (52 KP) rated Dunkirk (2017) in Movies

Sep 12, 2017  
Dunkirk (2017)
Dunkirk (2017)
2017 | Action, History, War
10
8.0 (197 Ratings)
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So intense!
This is one of those films that you end up thinking about for days afterwards. It's so intense and submursive that it really takes you on its journey. It is so well filmed and the acting is incredible. It's a film I believe everyone should see. It was such a massive part of the Second World War which is often skipped over in history lessons.