After working his way up to A-level pictures at Fox and peaking with The Street with No Name (1948) and The Snake Pit (1948), Mark Stevens slowly slid into B pictures again, eventually settling into TV with the occasional feature film – Fate is the Hunter (1964) being a rare A-level venture…
The story of the Nazis’ attempt to claim and flatten the city of Stalingrad and make its deepest foray into Soviet Russia had been chronicled in several dramatic films – notably in 1949 and 1993 – but this 2003 German 165 minute documentary series marked the first time survivors of the battle, which claimed 200,000 Germans and more than 500,000 Russian soldiers and civilians…
The Battle of Stalingrad was the first cinematic attempt to dramatize the pivotal 1942-1943 battle in which Adolph Hitler’s 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army were surrounded (‘kesseled’) by Joseph Stalin’s Red Army, and what Adolph Hitler had naively and foolishly felt would be a winnable…
Based on the 1959 novel by Colin McInnes, Absolute Beginners ostensibly recounts the singular summer of a young adult as he graduates from amateur shutterbug to teen insider, snapping sharp and candid shots of the emerging teen culture …
When co-star Paul Walker was killed in a freak car crash in 2013, the production of Furious 7 was put in jeopardy, but after reworking the script and hiring Walker’s brother to act as a stand-in, what emerges is a surprisingly coherent performance that doesn’t suffer from dropped scenes largely due to screen time being shared with such a massive cast…
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