Shoot the Glass

I love epics. Grand sweeping shots of beautiful landscape, stories spanning decades, characters larger than life. I rarely mind the runtime and I love just sitting down on a Sunday afternoon to watch a three- or four-hour movie. Lawrence of Arabia is among my favourite movies ever.
Australia though, was just a little too much. Baz [...]

Der Untergang tells the story of Adolf Hitler and his closest confidants in the final days before the fall of the Nazi regime. We see him in his bunker, as he slowly loses control of the war, but also of his mind and body.
It’s an altogether terrifying movie. However, unfortunately, it’s not precisely news to [...]

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 [...]

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 must admire Charlie Chaplin. This movie, in which he mocks Hitler and the Nazis (as well as Mussolini), came out as early as 1940. According to IMDb, Chaplin said that had he known the true extent of Nazi atrocities, he “could not have made fun of their homicidal insanity”. Still, it was brave at [...]