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One Of Our Aircraft
Is Missing

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 22 2023
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Producers-Writers-Directors – The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) – 1942 – UK – Cert. PG – 103m ***** Forced to bail out following an otherwise successful mission in which one engine is disabled, a British bomber crew must find their way across occupied Holland to return to the safety of Britain – part of […]

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Eric Ravilious:
Drawn To War

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 26 2022
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Drawn To War
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Director – Margy Kinmonth – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 87m ***1/2 The career of the British watercolour artist tragically killed while serving as an official war artist in World War Two – now available to watch online following UK cinema release on Friday, July 1st 2022 The first official war artist to […]

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Lancaster

Directors – David Fairhead, Anthony Palmer – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 110m **** The story of World War Two’s iconic Lancaster bomber aircraft, the missions it flew and the airmen who served as its crews – out in cinemas on Friday, May 27th The constant drone-like sound, the view looking downwards moving […]

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Dunkirk

Director – Christopher Nolan – 2017 – UK – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** Review originally published in DMovies.org. On Amazon Prime from Thursday, April 1st. British filmmaker Christopher Nolan – now one of the highest-grossing film directors in history, with the Dark Knight trilogy under his belt – has created a complex and multilayered film […]

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Hurricane

Director – David Blair – 2018 – Poland, UK – Cert. 15 – 107m **** In cinemas from Friday 7th September Review originally published in DMovies.org It’s too easy to take most British WW2 movies (e.g. Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, 2017) and claim they bolster the idea of Brexit – Britain alone against the world, defeating the […]