Introduction Ocean’s 11 (also stylised Ocean’s 11) is a 1960 American heist film directed and produced by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer, based on a story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell. The film stars five of the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.,… Read More
Introduction Triple Frontier is a 2019 American action-adventure film directed by J.C. Chandor. Chandor and Mark Boal wrote the screenplay based on a story by Boal. The film stars Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal as a group of former US Army Delta Force operators who reunite to plan a… Read More
Introduction La Llorona is a 2019 Guatemalan horror film directed by Jayro Bustamante. An ageing paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past. Also known as The Weeping Woman (world-wide English title). Outline Former Guatemalan dictator Enrique Monteverde (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) is… Read More
Introduction The King is a 2019 epic war film directed by David Michôd, based on several plays from William Shakespeare’s Henriad. The film focuses on the rise of Henry V as king after his father dies as he also must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his… Read More
Introduction Raven’s Hollow is a 2022 thriller film by director Christopher Hatton. Outline West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community. Cast Trivia Production & Filming Details Video Link(s)
Introduction Saladin is a 1963 Egyptian war drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, and was written by Yusuf Sibai, based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz. After Saladin’s victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of… Read More
Introduction The Endless Trench (Spanish: La trinchera infinita) is a 2019 Spanish-French historical drama film directed by Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, young newlyweds Higinio and Rosa are worried about the risk of reprisal killings, as Higinio is a Republican. He hides… Read More
Introduction Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society,… Read More
Introduction Fortunes of War is a 1994 Direct-to-video action film filmed in the Philippines directed by Thierry Notz that was produced by as well as starring Matt Salinger. Outline Freelance international humanitarian aid worker Peter Kernan quits his work in Thailand in disgust due to the political machinations that he feels is not helping the… Read More
Introduction The Devil’s Backbone (Spanish: El Espinazo del Diablo) is a 2001 gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and written by del Toro, David Muñoz, and Antonio Trashorras. The film is set in Spain, 1939, during the final year of the Spanish Civil War. It was released to positive reviews. After Carlos –… Read More
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