The short version? Go see 1917. It's a solid war movie. If I had a quibble it's that they compressed nearly 24 hours into just a few while at the same time, except for a period of unconsciousness, showing you the events in two apparently continuous shots. There was certainly less overt antiwar messaging than I would have expected. The background music, while not Zimmer, is similar to his more recent soundscape-style work. From a technical perspective, it's an amazing achievement of steadicam…
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If you're looking for a couple of the films I mentioned, you may come across several others. One of which involves a snowplow driver who goes on the vengeance trail to kill the drug dealers who murdered his son, sparking a war between two factions of drug dealers. If you're thinking, "But, that Liam Neeson movie, Cold Pursuit, isn't out yet," you'd be right. I'm talking about the Norwegian movie that inspired it, with the english title In Order of Disappearance who's original title translates m…
My introduction to Norwegian cinema didn't start with the recently mentioned Kon Tiki [https://thelastredoubt.com/norwegian-cinema-kon-tiki/]. For that matter, it didn't start with the movie I'm discussing today, but if I recall, with either the Netflix series Lillyhammer, or a dark little piece called Headhunters [https://thelastredoubt.com/norwegian-cinema-kon-tiki/]. While both were okay, the first one that actually impressed me was a disaster movie I found mentioned over on Quintus Curtius's…
It's sad how quickly it's obvious that something is just going to be pretentious trash for IYI's [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/brad-pitt-heads-into-space-with-mega-daddy-issues-in-first-ad-astra-trailer/] . > Director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) has said [http://collider.com/james-gray-brad-pitt-ad-astra-filming/] he wanted to make a film that depicted space travel as realistically as possible "and to basically say, 'Space is awfully hostile to us.' It’s kind of a Heart of Darkne…
The series on HBO has come to an end, and while in some ways it suffers from the usual dragging pace of binge-watch oriented series, and the previously mentioned "lets make a representative scientist character, who know more than all her coworkers, a woman" - significantly toned down after the introductory episode - is still a solid retelling of the Chernobyl disaster [https://infogalactic.com/info/Chernobyl_disaster]. The infogalactic article [https://infogalactic.com/info/Chernobyl_disaster] i…