The Nuremberg war crimes trials are in many ways seen as the culmination of the Allied Powers’ grand moral victory over the Nazi regime. The trials, which took place in the German city of Nuremberg from 1945 to 1946, laid bare the Nazis’ crimes of aggressive warfare, genocide and the horrors of the Holocaust. The occasionally riveting but sometimes clumsy
Read moreAfter a lumbering foray into the Star Wars franchise with The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson returns to what he does best, quirky character-based crime dramas in the flawed but highly enjoyable murder mystery Knives Out. The film plays like an alternate reality Agatha Christie story as a group of suspects (played by a typical all-star cast) gather at a
Read moreMidnight Special, the latest film from Mud and Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols concerns a young boy with what appears to be psychic powers. While watching this film audience members will feel like they have psychic powers due to the strange sensation they will experience of having seen much of this film before. To reveal which films Midnight Special resembles
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