World War II

Watching Walter

By Alan Ng | February 2026

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Director Mitch Yapko’s Watching Walter uses a simple pocket watch as an allegory for time….

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Director Mitch Yapko’s Watching Walter uses a simple pocket watch as an allegory for...

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PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! The Soundman is a picture that never begs for attention, never shouts its themes, and never...

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I have visited Poland and walked through the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was subtly devastating even months after. This is why Triumph of the...

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Sentimentality. Bombast. Larger-than-life performances. A ridiculously protracted narrative. Adhering to familiar tropes. There's a time and place for...

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Sean McNamara comes off the misfire that is Reagan with Bau, Artist At War. This is another story based on a real person’s hardships throughout their...

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In Devin Scott's short film, The Craftsman, our narrator tells a story inspired by the life of his great-grandfather, Felix Landis, a San Diego woodworker...

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The writing and directing debut of Anar Azimov, Six is not an adaptation of the popular Broadway show of the same name. Instead, the drama begins with six...

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Many directors have explored the Second World War in all possible genres, from action films such as Captain America to biographies with Imitation Game and...

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I'll be honest. I've seen way too many documentaries about World War II. Just when you thought all of the stories have been told about the war,...

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World War II—the war to end all wars—is full of individual stories, as Germany seemed to fall by a thousand cuts. One such "cut" is the story of...

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