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Failures of script, storyline, direction and acting make 'Café Resistance' a misbegotten attempt at a play-with-music on a serious subject.
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Tag Archives: World War 2
Theater Review (NYC): ‘Awake in the Dark’ by Shira Nayman
Shira Nayman's stage adaptation of her own fiction powerfully evokes a war child's search for her roots – with a shocking twist.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival: Films on the Freedom to Be, Move, and Give Birth
Freedom can be lost in little steps, from buttons on an overcoat to Zoom meetings. These films explore past, present and future threats.
Read More »On First Christmas Without Dad – Remembering the Importance of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”
All these years later “White Christmas” has an evanescent ability to touch us across time, and we think of the "snow" as being a metaphor for peace and love.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk’ by Dennis E Showalter
Cuts through propaganda and myth to provide a strategic and tactical understanding of one of history's greatest armored battles and a turning point of World War II.
Read More »Book Review: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre
Thrilling story of one of the great intelligence coups of the Allied war effort during the Second World War.
Read More »DVD Review: Foyle’s War – From Dunkirk to VE Day (Sets One Thru Five)
Experience the Second World War with Michael Kitchen as DCS Christopher Foyle in this wonderful mystery series from across the pond.
Read More »Screenshots: Heroes over Europe – Part II
Heroes over Europe is coming, and so are more screenshots.
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