A Matter Of Life And Death: Grief and Hope Tom Bond December 6, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Matters of life and death were not hard to come by when Powell & Pressburger’s classic love story was released in 1946. Every family across Europe and beyond had become far too familiar living their...
Fury – LFF Review David Brake October 19, 2014 Reviews Within the crowded canon of war films, few capture the horrors of combat with such authenticity and bombast as Fury. The pertinent violence and chaos that punctuates throughout supplies the film with a...
The Book Thief – Review Stephen O'Nion February 27, 2014 Reviews It may span the most significant decades of last century, but The Book Thief pretty much boils down to girl-lives-with-family, girl-learns-to-read - for two hours. Over John William’s all-pervading score,...
The Railway Man – Review Christopher Preston January 14, 2014 Reviews “War leaves a mark” is the overwhelming message of The Railway Man. Yet its subject doesn’t so much bear a scar as he does a festering psychological wound, which is pustulating into his civilian life and...