RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Film round-up: July 16, 2020
Reviews of Ghosts of War, Masters of Love, Dreambuilders and Arkansas
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Ghosts of War (18)
Directed by Eric Bress
★★★★
SIXTEEN years after The Butterfly Effect, film-maker Eric Bress returns with a seemingly conventional ghost film but which has a deliciously unsettling and surprising twist.
Set in WWII, it follows five battle-hardened US soldiers — played by Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, Kyle Gallner, Skylar Astin and Alan Ritchson — who are assigned to defend and hold a French chateau against the Nazis.
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