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About halfway through Sam Mendes’ latest film Empire of Light, I began to seriously question the nature of perspective in cinematic storytelling. Who’s point of view are we seeing these events from? H…
Two infantry soldiers, Lance Cpl. Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Cpl. Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given the task of delivering an urgent message to a fellow British battalion to call off a p…
It is the First World War. The unnerving silence of a quaint French town - now occupied by German military forces - is interrupted by the sound of invading soldiers making howling commands. The fall…