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Archive for January 2025

Sky Force (2025) – Some Force Some Farce

Genre – War Movie (based on true stories) Time: 2 Hours Platform: Theatrical release Cast: Akshay Kumar. Veer Pahariya. Sharad Kelkar. Nimrat Kaur. Sara Ali Khan.   Fact: On September 7, 1965, 12  Mystere combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force attacked the Sargodha Airfield Complex of Pakistani Air Force. One of the attacking pilots…

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The Wild Geese (1978) – Provocative yet engaging

Director:  Andrew V. McLaglen Cast: Richard Burton. Roger Moore. Richard Harris. Hardy Krüger. Stewart Granger Genre – War Movie (based on true stories) Time: 2 Hours, 14 minutes Platform: You Tube   Films about mercenaries are generally one dimensional. The (usually) “WHITE” mercenaries are bringing hope and light to the “DARK” continent of Africa, who…

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Amaran – 2024 – Well made

Genre: War + Love story Time: 2 Hours 49 minutes Platform: Netflix Writer Director: Rajkumar Periasamy Cast: Sivakarthikeyan. Sai Pallavi. Rahul Bose. Bhuvan Arora.   Generally speaking India sucks at making war movies – unless the film is filled with the usual masala of songs, dances , emotional dramas and so on. However the life…

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Juror 2 (2024) – Slow Burn but absorbing

Clickable Links in Red   Genre – Legal Drama Time: 1 Hour 53 minutes Platform: Amazon Prime – Rent Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Nicholas Hoult. Toni Collette.   Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) and his wife Ally (Zoey Deutsch) are expecting their child, and Ally is in the final trimester of pregnancy. Justin is called to…

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