On September 8th, Kino Lorber will release the 1970 World War II action-adventure cult classic HORNET’S NEST on Blu Ray. Rock Hudson stars as U.S Army paratrooper Captain Turner who, after jumping into Northern Italy with his men and being ambushed, ends up the only survivor. Meanwhile a young group […]
World War II Movies
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On May 16th, Warner Home Video will be releasing Samuel Fuller’s World War II Men On A Mission classic THE BIG RED ONE (1980) on Blu Ray. Largely inspired by Fuller’s own experiences during the war, the film is an up close look at the comraderie and adventures of ragtag […]
“I’ve always felt as an outsider. I’ve been rebellious against any iconoclastic thing. It’s true about the industry, but also about society as a whole. I don’t blame anyone, but I think that society is negative in that people are terrified to be free. I was born on the edge […]
Billy Wilder’s World War II comedy masterpiece, STALAG 17 is coming to Blu Ray from Paramount Home Video on October 8th. Based on the stageplay by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski (both real prisoners of Stalag 17B in Austria) the story takes place in a Luftwaffe prison camp somewhere on […]
Director Robert Aldrich was a man who seemed to love different genres of cinema. Just look at his filmography and you can see he wasn’t afraid to take on a variety of subject matter. Not only that but each time out he made classics. From his 1955 film noir Kiss […]
FOR MEMORIAL DAY… Brian G. Hutton’s 1970 Men on A Mission/Caper Film is a real gem. The story follows a squad of ragtag WWII soldiers led by Kelly (Clint Eastwood) as they go behind enemy lines to heist a cache of gold being held in a small French town’s bank. […]
One of the all time greatest war films, John Sturges’ THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) is coming to Blu Ray May 7th. Based on a true story, the action packed adventure takes place in 1943 during World War II behind the fences of a German Stalag where British, American, Polish and […]
FILM REVIEW The film is titled The Master, but it focuses mainly on Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) a man who is anything but. He’s a damaged World War II veteran and alcoholic. When we meet him he is passing time by humping a woman made of sand and masturbating into […]
Being quite interested in the History of World War II, the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, some questions always used to cross my mind. “How did Hitler manage to convince an entire population of his ideology? Why did ordinary German people, get carried away by his demagoguery? Was Hitler tapping into […]