There is no shortage of films and documentaries already made about WWII and the holocaust, so the trick for filmmakers is to find a fresh angle to tell the story. James Vanderbilt found his angle for Nuremberg via a book by American journalist Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, which highlights the relationship between …
Tag: WWII drama
FlixChatter Review: The Railway Man (2013)
This may sound harsh, but I’m growing tired of WWII films that have a singular focus on the Nazis and Jews. There have been so many wonderful films successfully depicting the horror and tragedy that befell the Jews, but at the same time, there are so many untold stories from different perspectives that are worth …
Flixchatter Review: The Reader
There's not much you can do when you're stuck on 20+ hours flight, except well, catch up on movies you might not have seen. That's what I did on I flew to Indonesia recently. I happened to catch Last Chance Harvey on the outbound flight (which I'll review soon) and The Reader on the flight …
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