ZULU (1964), Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, dir. Cy Endfield – #FILMTALK Review

Zulu is the classic 1964 British war epic telling the heroic story of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, when a small garrison of 150 British soldiers were attacked by over 4,000 Zulu warriors during the Anglo-Zulu War in January 1879. Many of the British soldiers were sick and wounded patients in a field hospital, who, along with a contingent of Army engineers who were attempting to build a bridge, successfully held off the Zulus. Continue reading “ZULU (1964), Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, dir. Cy Endfield – #FILMTALK Review”

ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953), Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert – #FILMTALK Review

Roman Holiday is a classic 1953 romantic comedy directed by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn and Eddie Albert. Continue reading “ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953), Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert – #FILMTALK Review”

Astonishing documentary – Apollo 11 (2019), directed by Todd Douglas Miller – Film Review

Apollo 11 is an important historical record of one of our most incredible achievements. It’s masterful storytelling and brilliant documentary filmmaking, put together with skill and artistry, entirely from archive material and original interviews from the time, and as such it has a purity that makes it original, compelling and completely moving.

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