and it performs its duty well, using tried-and-true methods to tell a story that hasn’t been given a proper movie treatment in either Japan or the West. Social context is an important judging filter here, becauseSaving Private Ryan-esque World War II movies are (unsurprisingly) rather...
DAN: I used to go to movies all the time, but all that CG stuff they’re making these days really bores me. I prefer the films of the 60’s and 70’s. I also love music (I used to write songs many years ago) so that’s a really big passion of mine. ...
The movie is based on the true story of Aleksey Maresyev, whose fighter plane was shot down in April of 1942 over Novgorod Region. Over the course of 18 days, the wounded pilot had to crawl his way back all on his own. Doctors managed to save his life, but had to amputate both his...
It was a time when cars had curves, cigarettes weren’t bad for you, (most) movies were black and white, and war was good versus evil. By James P. KushlanThe miracle of margarineHow did a little-known bread spread that looked like lard, and every bit as appetizing, win a permanent...
Yet, I found two sidebar stories of Okinawa to be the most compelling, of the ones told here in this one-hour episode. They both involved the natives of Okinawa, one in which the Japanese brutalized them and another in which an American force mistook them for Japanese and opened fire, ...
Make sure you wearcomfortableshoes. There is a lot of different ways to get the information.Movies, reading, pictures,artifacts! UpvoteDownvote Michelin Travel & LifestyleMarch 29, 2012 Seek out Higgins boat, which was designed and built in New Orleans. You’ll learn why the shallow-draft 36...
“The notion of escape is something that’s fundamental to all of us. But to then have a world and characters to play with that were so unusual, and so different from other escape movies: all of that put together, I found irresistible.”...
I keep returning to because sledgehammer games keep creating a very Earnest and honorable game every time they do it. I never get the feeling that they are trying to be dark and itchy like other games in the series that are black ops. ...
TV shows and movies are turning back the clock 80 years to tell stories from one of the darkest periods in history. Several series set during the Holocaust, from Hulu's"We Were the Lucky Ones"(streaming Fridays) and Peacock's "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" (May 2) to National Geographic'...
You couldn't talk about pre-60s war movies without Paths of Glory either, one of Stanley Kubrick's earliest works. That said, most of the early-to-mid-20th-century war stories were told on screen with a sort of romantic, adventurous flare. The deep sadness of war, the loneliness that...