13 h. ago Why this is the most brutally realistic war film ever made, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY, who's reported on conflicts around the world for 25 years

My first experience of being under direct fire happened while I was lying in an alpine meadow near Batusha, Kosovo, on a glorious spring morning in 1999.

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47 h. ago Danny Dyer's 'underrated' war film with link to James Bond and Sean Bean

Danny Dyer has built a career on making interesting choices and one such choice was to star in a 2011 British war action film that has an incredible link to James Bond

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55 h. ago 'Underrated' Danny Dyer war film with incredible link to James Bond

Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Danny Dyer's 2011 British war film has an incredible connection to James Bond and fans can't get enough of it

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4 d. ago Hidden gem war film with perfect review score and 'realism few can replicate'

The Cruel Sea is a 1953 war film that is based on the best-selling novel of the same name and is set during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War

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5 d. ago BBC war film so 'realistic and horrifying' it was banned from screens for 20 years

Threads first aired on BBC2 in 1984 and was watched by more than 6m people but was subsequently withdrawn from public view and not broadcast again for 20 years

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6 d. ago Forgotten war film with one moment fans say 'you know it's amazing'

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in the 2016 film Allied, which was a box office bomb and received poor reviews from critics, but fans can't get enough of the love story

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8 d. ago ‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things SpanishAlmost 200 years ago, the pioneering British travel writer Richard Ford offered an observation that has been happily ignored by the legions of authors who have traipsed in his dusty footsteps across Spain, toting notebooks, the odd violin or Bible, and, of course, their own particular prejudices.“Nothing causes more pain to Spaniards”, Ford noted in his 1845 Handbook for Travellers in Spain, “than to see volume after volume written by foreigners about their country.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 'More than a film' Netflix war movie leaves fans insist is a must watch

Number 24 is streaming on Netflix now and tells the true story of the Oslo Gang, one of the most daring resistance groups in the Second World War

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1 week ago 'Best war film viewers have ever seen' with unexpected cameo from huge star

The historical war film was a box office smash hit and saw the acting debut of one of the world's biggest stars alongside Oscar-winning actors and a huge twist

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1 week ago The Narrow Road to the Deep North review – Jacob Elordi’s fine turn in complex, confronting war drama

Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s novel eschews battleground spectacle for a rich meditation on trauma that unfolds in three timelinesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMany great directors have been attracted to war movies – or, as is the case with Australian auteur Justin Kurzel, a war-themed series, adapting Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.Film-makers of a certain calibre seem to view this genre as a rite of passage. Some productions – including the recent Apple TV+ series Masters of the Air – have a retrograde flavour, painting war (perhaps problematically) as a great big adventure. Many lean into spectacle, attempting to recreate the smoke and fury of battle, but in the process running the risk of celebrating or ennobling war. “Every film about war,” declared François Truffaut, “ends up being pro-war.”Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue r...

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1 week ago Warfare cast reflect on their breakout roles: ‘I’m forever thankful’

Exclusive: The new war film stars a who’s who of rising stars – they pick the films that launched their careers

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1 week ago RFK Jr plays medical detective as he contradicts his own department on autism

ANALYSIS: Kennedy suggested that ‘ideology’ has prevented research into the causes of autism, writes Richard Hall

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1 week ago Netflix now streaming 'unbelievable' war film based on true story

Operation Mincemeat was first released in 2021 but it is only now that fans are coming to know the film is based on the real-life events of the successful British operation

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2 w. ago Trump called a cabinet meeting after walking back his tariff plans. It might as well have been held in Moscow

ANALYSIS: Trump’s cabinet meetings have turned into North Korean-style propaganda shows, writes Richard Hall

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2 w. ago China confirms plans to curb Hollywood film imports amid Trump’s escalating trade war

China had recently considered a complete ban on all American movies in retaliation to Donald Trump’s raising tariffs on Chinese imports

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2 w. ago 'Haunting' war movie leaves Netflix viewers in 'stunned silence'

The British war film, 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, was a huge success when it was released in 2019, and now it's making its way up the Netflix rankings as fans rave about it

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2 w. ago ‘Civil War’ filmmaker and a former SEAL built a new kind of combat movie in ‘Warfare’

Filmmaker Alex Garland has teamed up with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza to make a new kind of war film

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2 w. ago Trump’s words move markets. But his lack of clarity means traders don’t know which way to go.

ANALYSIS: Trump said he was not considering pausing tariffs, but failed to explain the contradictions in his policy, Richard Hall writes

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2 w. ago Trump’s words move markets. But his roundabout ramblings mean traders don’t know which way to go.

ANALYSIS: Trump said he was not considering pausing tariffs, but failed to explain the contradictions in his policy, Richard Hall writes

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2 w. ago Adolescence team announce ‘harrowing’ new TV adaptation of acclaimed war film

‘Threads’ was the first film to ever depict what a nuclear winter would actually look like

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