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Film Review - Warfare

Film Review - Warfare

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland deliver an exceptionally gruelling anti-war film

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Apr 21, 2025
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“The stretched twig of peace is at melting point. People here are literally bursting with war!” So proclaimed reporter “Donald Bethlehem”, on the “Australio-Hong Kong border”, in the classic but short-lived 1994 BBC series The Day Today; a savage comedy by Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci satirising (among other things) how the media reports…

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