The Hindenburg (1975)
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George C. Scott leads an all-star cast in this imaginative suspense thriller that attempts to shed...
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
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Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Bell-Bottom George (1943) in Movies
May 17, 2020
These days I suspect most people only watch George Formby films for the one-liners and the musical numbers - but the script here is thin, and Formby doesn't play the uke in half the songs (which mostly aren't that good either). All the usual elements turn up - chases, slapstick, unlikely romance, etc - but the movie feels padded even at only 97 minutes long and it's just not consistently funny enough. Still, the second world war saw some terrible disasters, and this is far from the worst of them.
A Country Road, A Tree
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From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a remarkable imagining of Samuel Beckett’s wartime...
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Mystery Man
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A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man...
Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust
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It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer...
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Force of Hate (DS Jo Howe #2)
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When a night-time firebomb attack at a Brighton travellers' site kills women and children, Chief...
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
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SPRING 1940. GERMANY IS AT WAR. HITLER IS PREPARING TO UNLEASH THE BLITZKRIEG. IN BERLIN, WHERE EVIL...
Lee (2222 KP) rated Overlord (2018) in Movies
Nov 5, 2018 (Updated Nov 6, 2018)
Down on the ground, the team (what's left of them) regroup and begin making their way towards the radio tower in order to carry out their mission. They have Nazi soldiers and landmines to contend with though, eventually coming across a local woman from the town they're headed to, and she leads them back to the home she shares with her younger brother and poorly aunt. It turns out that the town is being terrorised by Nazi officers who are randomly killing the towns residents and then doing shocking things with them beneath the radio tower that our soldiers are seeking to destroy.
The thing about Ovelord, for me, is that it never goes full on crazy with all the zombie experiment stuff that they show you in the trailers. Up until this moment in the town, and throughout the rest of the movie to a certain degree, Overlord is basically just a really solid war story in a similar vein to something like Saving Private Ryan. An intense opening, a journey across enemy territory by a team of soldiers, some scenes within a war-torn village. Time is dedicated to introducing and developing the characters and, even if the odd one is a little bit stereotypical, the whole thing feels very well done and hugely enjoyable. It's a fair while before you get any hint of anything more than that and when you do, it's not a complete From Dusk Till Dawn style flip either. It's not over the top and is in a similar tone and style to what's come up until that point. I felt that made it all the more believable, and even more terrifying.
The practical effects relating to the creatures the Nazi soldiers are creating are extremely effective and disturbing at times. They had the desired effect of either making me squirm in my seat, jump out of my skin or grin from ear to ear at how cool it all was! I absolutely loved this movie. Brutal, intensely enjoyable and with a satisfying ending. Loved it.
