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BLOG: ‘Allo ‘Allo: the film club watches Overlord…

20th October 2020 by Sarah Cartland

Sorry but if you set a WW2 film in a French village or town, Brits of a certain age will see every blond Nazi officer as Herr Flick. Naming the film’s hero Boyce also means that unfortunately many of us will immediately think BOYCIE! (hehehehehehehe). Which is a shame as Boyce is a topnotch hero:… BLOG: ‘Allo ‘Allo: the film club watches Overlord… Read More

Filed Under: Blog, Featured 3 Tagged With: american soldiers, france, horror, nazis, overlord, ww2, zombies

The Good Liar 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

9th November 2019 by Sarah Cartland 4 Comments

It was the hideously old-fashioned bedside lamp in Betty’s spare room that first brought me up sharp. No way would Betty, a widow who favours silk and satin and wears an elegant dove-grey overcoat, and who collapses when new boyfriend Roy suggests a holiday on the Costa del Sol, buy that monstrosity – especially in… The Good Liar Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: con, nazis, scammer

JoJo Rabbit (London Film Festival 2019) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

15th October 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. JoJo Rabbit works nearly all of the time, which for a comedy about the friendship between a small boy in the Hitler Youth and a Jewish girl, and with a buffoonish Hitler as an imaginary father figure, is… JoJo Rabbit (London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: germany, nazis, ww2

The Aftermath – 1 minute video review Includes Video 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

19th March 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

READ MY FULL REVIEW OF THE AFTERMATH

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: allies, bereavement, germany, hamburg, nazis, reconciliation, video-review, ww2

The Aftermath 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

11th March 2019 by Sarah Cartland 1 Comment

How much can be rebuilt after it has been smashed to pieces? That’s the big question in The Aftermath – a postwar love story that attempts to to examine the realities of reconciliation, whether between people or countries. The film is about rebuilding broken relationships as much as broken cities, with the ambiguities of war… The Aftermath Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: allies, bereavement, germany, hamburg, nazis, ww2

Das Boot (Director’s Cut) 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th November 2018 by Sarah Cartland 4 Comments

*** Check out my submarine movies section *** “They are drinking at the bar, celebrating our sinking! Not yet my friends, not yet!” shouts U-96’s captain with delight, as they practically bounce up onto the surface of the narrow Straits of Gibraltar, which they’ve been marooned at the bottom of for 15 hours. He’s not a lover… Das Boot (Director’s Cut) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Submarines Tagged With: germany, nazis, second world war, submarine, u-boat, ww2

The King’s Choice 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

24th January 2018 by Sarah Cartland 3 Comments

The actual German invasion is swift, though not entirely unexpected. A battleship sails into the Straits of Norway, the home forces attack, and a huge ship burns orange against an inky blue night sky. It’s an impressive initial volley, and also a heartbreaking last stand, as more German warships follow it into Norwegian waters. A… The King’s Choice Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Haakon VII, Invasion, nazis, norway, quisling, ww2

The Darkest Hour Trailer May Be My Darkest Hour…

13th July 2017 by Sarah Cartland 2 Comments

*** My Darkest Hour review is now live *** …as I used up all my Churchillian superlatives for Brian Cox’s Winston in the recent movie – and Gary Oldman looks like he’s going to be incredible in this. WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO. Oh and thanks to this and the “other” Churchill I found out I’ve… The Darkest Hour Trailer May Be My Darkest Hour… Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: churchill, coalition government, darkest hour, darkest hour trailer, gary oldman, george vi, joe wright, nazis, war, war film, wartime, winston churchill

Dead Snow 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

16th January 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

For some reason he always attracted the clingy ones on Tinder

“If you have your intestines in your hands, what do you do then?” and this sadly un-rhetorical question, posed by a Menacing Local to the kids-in-the-isolated-cabin, haunted me until about two-thirds of the way through Norwegian Nazi zombie mash up Dead Snow when it was overtaken by this thought: “if you are hanging off a cliff holding onto a Nazi zombie’s… Dead Snow Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews Tagged With: nazi zombies, nazis, norway, norwegian horror, zombies

Anthropoid 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

26th September 2016 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

His wife rued the day she'd bought him that Oliver Sacks book

As Czech resistance fighters Josef and Jan try to locate their contact from the raggle-taggle remnants of the Czech Resistance, the  constant low level terror at being found out or betrayed to the Gestapo is palpable. Nervousness skitters through every meeting as they all try to work out who can or cannot be trusted. Everyone is a… Anthropoid Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: anthropoid, anthropoid review, assassination, charlotte le bon, cillian murphy, czech resistance, czechoslovakia, film review, Heydrich, jamie dornan, Jan Kubis, Josef Gabcik, movie review, nazi films, nazis, operation anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich, sean ellis, second world war, ss, true life films, true stories, war films, world war two, world war two films

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