Shoot the Glass

I’m sure you know about The Elephant Man already. This movie is based on the true story of Joseph “John” Merrick (John Hurt), a man who lived in 19th-century England. Merrick was severly disfigured through a congenital disease (which exact disease, we still do not know till this day) and spent most of his life [...]

This movie tells the story of the Algerian civil war and struggle for independance from France in the 50s and 60s. It shows us in detail the Algerians fighting back against what they perceive as oppression, and the French military who refuse to let go of their colony.
This was an interesting movie for me to [...]

This film is set three years after the end of WWII. It is a fictionalised account of the trials that took place in Nuremberg after the end of the war. Which is to say, there were trials in Nuremberg, but the characters in this one are fictional. At this time, most of the important Nazi [...]

To be brutally honest, I don’t know what this movie is doing in the top 250 movies of all time. It shouldn’t be anywhere near that list. Though, I supposed people were affected a lot by it.
I didn’t think it was a very good movie. Sure, the story deserved to be told, the filmmakers’ hearts [...]

I love epic movies. Movies that span large amounts of time and space, and create a scene so beautiful we can’t help but get swept up in it. David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia is one such movie. Sir Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi is another.
Gandhi the man needs little introduction. He was just a man, but a [...]