A Film You'll Adore And One That Will Make You Snore

In this weeks attempt to help the fine Pinewood readers indulge in something other the world of sports and the quality content our boys create in order to make sense of it all, I first bring attention to the 2017 film Darkest Hour.

Gary Oldman beautifully played Winston Churchill and took home the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for it. Director Joe Wright intimately illustrated the story’s intensity. The movie’s use of dialogue really captured the mood, the character’s development and ultimately showed how Churchill navigated the problems he needed to solve for his nation while under a great deal of pressure. Darkest Hour will please any history junkie as it illustrates the intricate process that narrowly saved the 300,000 British soldiers stranded in Dunkirk along with how Churchill protected the nation’s freedom from imminent Nazi tyranny.

To save everyone some time, don’t even bother watching An Inspector Calls. I was very disappointed because on paper it’s very promising. David Thewlis who has been in successful films such as Harry Potter: Prisoner of Askaban and The boy in the striped Pajamas is the lead. He’s paired up with Sophie Rundle and Finn Cole from the hit series Peaky Blinders. I even liked the premise of the story; In 1912 a detective interrupts a family celebration to interrogate each member about a mysterious suicide victim that they are in some way linked to. All this build up only to result in a tremendous lack of execution. One by one, the family members each took turns being in denial for a split second, then proceeded their guts just because the mysterious claimed to have her diary that said otherwise. Oh and he never showed them the diary and only showed two of them the picture of the girl. I would have kicked him out within 5 minutes of him being there, but instead they all self incriminated in front of the entire family. The whole thing felt very forced.