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THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER Review
During the Sengoku period of Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) finds himself trapped inside his own castle as his enemies close in around him. With his forces surrounded and his chances of survival becoming increasingly slim, Murashige turns to an unlikely source for help: a prisoner named Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant strategist who has been captured and imprisoned within the castle. Despite being his captive, Kanbei possesses an understanding of war that co
Drew Sullivan
Aug 153 min read


PRESSURE Review
No one has ever made a film about weather forecasting before, and somehow, inexplicably, it is one of the most tense things I have watched this year. With Pressure, Anthony Maras has taken a story about a Scottish meteorologist arguing with an American meteorologist over whether it will rain on June 5th, 1944, and turned it into something that had me actually leaning forward in my seat. The fate of the entire Allied invasion of Europe rests on a man reading cloud formations c
Guy Roditty
May 282 min read
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