Their Finest (2016)
Set in 1940, around the time of the London Blitz during World War II, Their Finest stars Gemma Arterton (The Girl with All the Gifts, Gemma Bovery) as Catrin Cole, a fledgling screenwriter from Wales who has...
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Set in New York during the mid 1940s, Stephen Frears’ (Philomena, The Queen) film about a real-life, upper-class heiress with a zest for music and charitable works gives Meryl Streep (Ricki and the Flash, Into the...
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a $25 million budgeted (big money, for its time) collaborative effort, years in the making, between the U.S. and Japan film-making industries to craft an accurate dramatic telling of the events...
The King’s Speech (2010)
An atypical underdog story, The King’s Speech is a well executed piece through and through, featuring very fine performances, good character touches and wit in the script (David Seidler, Tucker), Tom Hooper’s (The Damned United,“John Adams”) consummate direction,...
A League of Their Own (1992)
As time goes on, my fondness for A League of Their Own grows, and only a waning voice in the back of my mind keeps me from giving it the vaunted 5-star rating. Obviously, not everyone...
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Set in rural northern Spain in 1944, following their Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth tells the tale of Ofelia (Baquero, Romasanta), a young girl who travels to a military camp with her pregnant mother (Gil, Belle Epoque) in order for...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
This film is set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where part of the city is the fictional Toontown, where all of the famous (and not so famous) cartoon characters (called “Toons”) reside. Bob...
New York, New York (1977)
In my opinion, New York New York is the most underrated of Scorsese’s films. Coming after Taxi Driver, critics probably grew restless looking for more signs of a genius filmmaker that they thought Scorsese to be within...
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Director Alfonso Arau made a splash with his previous effort, 1992’s Like Water for Chocolate, and he returns to the whimsical romance genre for the English language A Walk in the Clouds, mostly to lesser but...
Memphis Belle (1990)
Very loosely based (or basically, as close to complete fiction as one can get without being so) on a real B-17 bomber that fought in World War II, Memphis Belle is a formula Hollywood war...