A Hidden Life, despite being based on real events, looks like a Terrence Mallick dull-a-thon, with this story of unsung hero, Bl. Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering […]
The Captain is set in Germany, April 1945, two weeks before the end of World War II, so potentially unfortunate timing for the events which are about to happen. Willi Herold (Max Hubacher) is a German soldier who’s rather less committed to the Furher’s cause because he’s a deserter and looter, but one who comes […]
Homeland Season 5 begins next Sunday on Channel 4 at 9pm, and it picks up two years after Carrie Mathison’s (Claire Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief. Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the “war on terror,” Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile […]
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