Hasitha Fernando on the story behind Downfall as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary… Over the course of many years there have been numerous stories of World War II that centered around Adolf Hitler brought to life through feature films and the small screen. These portrayals have ranged mostly from moustache twirling villainy to two-dimensional […]
Sugar Coating Hollywood-Style
Tom Jolliffe on when real life stories are sugar coated in film… A good biopic can be fascinating. There are characters, through TV and print media, biographies, documentaries and more, that we learn the most fascinating things about. Documentaries of course have the goal of showing us (when done right) both sides of a personality, […]
4 More Great War Films (That Still Aren’t Saving Private Ryan)
Graeme Robertson with four more great war films (that still aren’t Saving Private Ryan)… A while back I wrote a feature in which I looked back at four of what I considered to be great war films, with the main linking theme being that they weren’t Steven Spielberg’s beloved classic Saving Private Ryan. However, as […]
