6 h. ago 'Greatest war film ever made' reduces viewers to tears and has huge A

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 war film that is based on the 1962 autobiographical novel by James Jones, and it tells the story of a fictionalised version of the Battle of Mount Austen during the Second World War

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9 h. ago Netflix Adolescence star in tears after 'dropping the ball' and 'ruining' take

Netflix drama Adolescence has been a huge hit with viewers, but star Ashley Walters was left in tears and needed to be consoled after making a huge error whilst filming

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7 d. ago Netflix film with forgotten Hollywood star labelled 'greatest war movie ever made'

Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film that is streaming on Netflix and stars Tom Hardy, Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett and Jason Isaacs and has been hailed as one of the greatest war movies ever made

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7 d. ago Netflix film with forgotten Hollywood star hailed as ‘greatest war film ever made'

Fans are raving about the underrated Netflix war film by award-winning director Ridley Scott, starring a forgotten-about Hollywood actor from classic 90s movies

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1 week ago Anna Kendrick appears to SHADE Blake Lively's legal war at film premiere while an ally doubles down on support

Anna Kendrick seemingly shaded Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni as she evaded a question during the SXSW Film Festival in Austin on Friday.

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1 week ago Trump dreams of a Maga empire – but he’s more likely to leave us a nuclear hellscape | Alexander Hurst

The US president’s new imperialism could make real the apocalyptic world depicted by cold war filmmakersIn 1965, the British government blocked the BBC from broadcasting The War Game, a pseudo-documentary film it had commissioned depicting just what a nuclear attack on the UK would entail. The film, the government judged, was simply too “horrifying” for the public. Two decades after that, The War Game finally aired, prior to the release of the 1984 film Threads, which, in imagining the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the UK, was the first movie to deal with the scientific reality of nuclear winter.When I was 11, I had nightmares for a few weeks after seeing a trailer for a nuclear doomsday film (The Sum of All Fears) that ran prior to a cinema screening of The Fellowship of the Ring (I had just read the three Lord of the Rings volumes). The Nazgûl were disturbing, of course, but they were not of the real world, unlike nukes. This January, I was confronted with The War Game at an ex...

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1 week ago Forgotten World War II film dubbed 'one of the greatest ever' now on Amazon Prime

A Bridge Too Far, Richard Attenborough's epic retelling of the doomed Operation Market Garden, is now available to stream in the UK nearly 50 years since it hit the big screen

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3 w. ago BBC EastEnders fans 'in tears' as they spot huge Sonia Fowler detail during labour scene

The name of Sonia Fowler's baby daughter has been revealed on EastEnders after fans were asked to vote on it during the 40th anniversary episode in honour of the show's creators

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3 w. ago Stranger Things star Matthew Modine says a lot of his female co

Modine, 65 is best known for playing James 'Joker' Davis in Stanley Kubrick's brutal war film Full Metal Jacket and, more recently, portraying Dr Brenner in Netflix's smash hit Stranger Things.

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4 w. ago 'Best war film' streaming free that 'should have won Captain America star an Oscar'

The film features two Marvel superheroes.

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last month Who is 'Sponge'? Warwick Davis breaks down in tears on BAFTAS stage over death of his wife

The actor, 55, reduced viewers to tears as he paid tribute in his acceptance speed to his late wife Samantha - who tragically died last year aged 53.

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last month ‘No safe place’: the BBC documentary showing Gaza through a child’s eyes

BBC Two’s Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone gathers intimate footage of three children surviving in the besieged strip“Have you ever wondered what you’d do if your world is destroyed?” asks 13-year-old Abdullah, speaking at the beginning of an intimate BBC Two documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, that airs on Monday night. “Most important, could you stay alive? After all this, you could say we’re experts.”Abdullah, now 14 and heading back to his prewar home in the north of the shattered territory, is the English-speaking narrator – one of three children whose stories of hope and endurance are at the heart of an hour-long film, a distinctive and deliberate choice intended to make the film resonate after 15 months of war. Continue reading...

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