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In the years before World War II, the Augusta-Victoria College, a girls’ boarding school in Bexhill-on-Sea, catered to a very specific audience: The daughters and goddaughters of important Germans and high ranking Nazi officials. It is believed that the intent of the school was to educate the girls in the language and British customs and was part of a strategy to keep England and Germany close.
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NU’EST have dropped a trailer and tracklist for their upcoming second studio album ‘Romanticize’.The cinematic video, which dropped earlier today (April 12), features the boyband performing in various locations, from an art museum to a boxing ring, alongside an English voiceover by member Aron. “Romance is not an escape from reality,” he begins, before diving into a short monologue on the painful reality of love.The group have also revealed the official tracklist for ‘Romanticize’.
There have been countless documentaries and TV specials about World War II and the rise of the Nazis during that era. We’ve seen archival footage, interviews with soldiers, discussions with Holocaust survivors, and just hours upon hours of historians giving the facts that led to one of the worst times in human history.
Jamie Lang Spanish broadcaster RTVE and production companies Tornasol and DeAPlaneta have teamed with German production-sales company ZDF Enterprises on “ANA. all in,” a legal thriller starring Maribel Verdú based on Spanish author Roberto Santiago’s best-seller “Ana.” Representing the series internationally, ZDFE will be presenting the series at MipT.
Mainstream, the upcoming film starring Andrew Garfield and Stranger Things star Maya Hawke, has been released.The film is directed by Gia Coppola, who made her debut in 2013 with Palo Alto. It is scheduled for release in US theatres and on-demand in the UK on May 7.Mainstream deals with a young woman named Frankie (Hawke) who has a chance encounter with Garfield’s character, a mysterious stranger who goes by Link.
Dominic Cooper as English spy Fielding Scott. And ET has the exclusive first look at the trailer for the six-episode series premiering on the service in April.Set in 1960s Berlin, Germany, the Cold War series follows Scott after he’s sent on a mission to find out who is behind a leak of vital security intel belonging to the Americans, British and French.
EXCLUSIVE: Raff Law (Twist) has joined the cast of buzzy Apple Studios limited series Masters of the Air, which now is underway in the UK, we can reveal.
The profile may be fake but the threat is real in “Profile”, the latest film to play out entirely via computer screen.
The new movie Profile looks like it’s going to be a nail-biting thriller based on the suspenseful trailer that was just released!
Over the decades, we’ve seen quite a few filmmakers tackle the story of Hitler’s rise in Western Europe. We’ve seen war films and heartfelt dramas.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBack in my early days as a film critic, I took a certain unseemly pleasure in mocking inadvertently funny flops — fiascoes like “The Lonely Lady,” “The Room” and pretty much anything by Uwe Boll — so it’s easy to recognize the impulse with which “Alien on Stage” directors Lucy Harvey and Danielle Kummer drove from London to Dorset to catch the stage play of the same name, a scene-for-scene amateur theatrical production of the Ridley Scott horror classic, as
Alissa Simon Film CriticInspired by the real history of Bexhill-on-Sea’s Victoria-Augusta-College, a 1930s finishing school for the daughters of the Nazi elite, “Six Minutes to Midnight,” helmed by Andy Goddard, wants to be a Hitchcockian thriller, but merely manages a familiar pastiche peopled with stock characters that should divert less-discriminating viewers.
Mein Vater ist Deutscher.” (It means what you think it means.)We meet Ilse (Carla Juri), an uptight German professor and full-fledged Nazi, and a few Brits who are Hitler sympathizers trying to thwart Miller’s mission. The story is a compelling one.Still, a more effective thriller would juxtapose the worldwide catastrophe the adults all know is about to be unleashed, and carefree young kids who are unknowingly at the center of it.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBrad Peyton, who directed Dwayne Johnson movies “San Andreas” and “Rampage,” is attached to helm character-driven action thriller “Sniper Elite,” inspired by the stealth-shooter game franchise, which has sold more than 30 million units.The movie will see an elite Allied sniper, Karl Fairburne, engage in a cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of London at the height of the Blitz during World War II, as he tries to save British Prime Minister
Who needs British taxpayers?!
“R#J,” a new take on “Romeo & Juliet” for the TikTok era that also used Screenlife and premiered at Sundance.Also Read: How 'R#J' Cast and Filmmakers Brought Shakespeare Into the Diverse, Digital Age (Video)The story of “Profile” follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.
Focus Features has taken global rights to Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and won the Audience Award. A theatrical release date of May 14 has been set. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding CIS/Russia.
A curious footnote in pre-World War II British history fails to provide adequate fuel for a gripping espionage thriller in Six Minutes to Midnight, a disappointingly conventional passion project for genderfluid comic Eddie Izzard, inspired by childhood visits to the local museum at Bexhill-on-Sea.
Roads of Freedom.The show will be a 10-episode arc based on Sir Antony Beevor’s books, set to tell the story of World War II from a number of international perspectives.According to Deadline, Roads to Freedom “will portray the brutal realities from multiple viewpoints, with characters not only from the U.S.