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A civil war has engulfed the United States between the authoritarian federal government, led by a third-term president, and secessionist movements. Despite the president claiming victory is imminent, it is widely expected that Washington, D.C. will soon be reached on the Fourth of July by the "Western Forces" (WF) led by Texas and California, while forces of the southeast "Florida Alliance ...
In an early scene in the movie, one of the first pieces of advice that Lee gives to Jessie is to wear a helmet. And during a firefight early in the film, Dunst, Spaeny and Moura are indeed all ...
The scene is played for unpleasant shivers, and it gets them. Civil War, in case you haven’t guessed, is a cautionary tale. As allegories go, it's a fairly barefaced one, even though Garland ...
Garland, who also wrote the script, shoots incredibly intense battle scenes. I saw the film in an IMAX theater and recommend it. The sound enveloped the audience, percussive, disturbing.
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
It’s the nowness of “Civil War” that will be much discussed. The movie takes place in an America that’s been amplified from its current state of near-insurrection, but only slightly, a ...
Sommersby received generally positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 63% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus states: "Sommersby stumbles as a consistently compelling mystery, but typically solid work from Jodie Foster and Richard Gere fuels an engaging romance."
In some respects, “Civil War” feels like a missed opportunity for what it leaves unaddressed, content to let the jarring notion of a war movie on American soil – like watching “Platoon ...