This review has been a slightly different experience for me. Normally I’m stuck at home, on my own with either the DVD player or my laptop being the source of my Great War Film viewing. This time I’m sitting slap bang, dead centre in the middle of an actual cinema watching a Great War Film […]
Read more "The Water Diviner (2014)"To round out my journey through 100 years of Great War Films I gave myself three movie options. Was it to be ‘Private Peaceful’, ‘Warhorse’ or ‘Beneath Hill 60’? Having previously seen all three, what I was really asking myself was did I want to finish on a flourish and go out with a bang […]
Read more "Beneath Hill 60 (2010)"It’s the 80’s, man. Don Johnson is driving his lambo around Miami, grown men are wearing cycling shorts to the pub, mullets are THE thing, Rick Astley is Never Gonna Give You Up, Jive Bunny! You get my point, I hope. The 80’s wasn’t a decade of quality output. Big call, I know, but there […]
Read more "The Lighthorsemen (1987)"Here’s another one of those films I knew nothing about prior to my initial viewing. It was just a name on my list, it sat there for quite a while as I tried to source a DVD. The sense of anticipation was palpable when I finally bagged a copy and the complaining DVD player fired […]
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