By Tim Pelan There is a long and noble history in Hollywood of submarine war films. The two most…
By Tim Pelan Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is just…
By Tim Pelan On the occasion of John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King screening at the Edinburgh…
By Tim Pelan British war cinema is preoccupied, it seems, with stiff-upper-lipped defeat—from innumerable plucky POW features to the…
The film that started out as a critical failure, labeled as the weakest link in the maestro's string of high-quality…