D-Day has been experienced on-screen countless times, perhaps most influentially in Steven Spielberg's gory and visceral opening to the 1997 film Saving Private Ryan. It's hard not to start there when it comes to Pressure, which takes on the fateful day, albeit from a very different angle. The
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy, and secured “nothing short of total victory.” We've seen that pivotal battle chronicled on film before, with the actual difficulties in planning finding cinematic life in recent years. The
One of Aardman Animations' most popular characters, the intelligent and ever-inquisitive Shaun the Sheep, finally has another trip to the big screen. The Shaun movies have become a franchise of their own, spinning off the iconic Wallace & Gromit shorts and features into a well-loved TV series.
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
“By Any Means” treads familiar ground, but Mark Wahlberg shines as real life Hitman-turned-Fed informer Gregory Scarpa, and behind the tropes and cinematic conventions is the kernel of a true story that has relevance to this day. Mark Wahlberg is distracting (mostly in a good way) throughout
