Sid Vicious. Beethoven. Sirius Black. Dracula. These incredible performances by Gary Oldman over the years still hasn’t prepared you for his full-bodied disappearing act as Winston Churchill in ...
There are only three constants in this topsy-turvy world of ours: death, taxes and World War II movies. There’s not a whole lot we can do about death, and taxes will probably be a point of contention ...
Darkest Hour isn’t quite as great a film as Spielberg’s (or Nolan’s, for that matter), but it does have a central performance from Gary Oldman that will likely draw comparisons to Daniel Day-Lewis’ as ...
BOTTOM LINE A solid wartime drama, but Oldman’s phenomenal performance as Churchill makes this a must-see. High-school history teachers just got the third title in a cinematic curriculum on the events ...
Most movies about politicians depict either slippery narcissists — “Nixon,” “The Deal” (about Tony Blair), “Game Change” (Sarah Palin), this spring’s “Chappaquiddick” (Ted Kennedy) — or complicated ...
In June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reflected upon the ongoing Battle of Britain: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its ...
Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...
During its invasion of France and Belgium in World War II, the German army cornered British forces in the French coastal town of Dunkirk. As Britain faced its darkest hour and the threat of an ...