It’s a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story,The Greatest Gift, written by Philip Van Doren Stern. Released in 1946, the film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of […]
Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The film starts by referencing Siegfried Sassoon’s open letter dated July 1917, protesting the conduct and insincerities of the First World War. The letter has been published in The Times and has […]
Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biopic about John Lennon’s adolescence, his relationships with his guardian aunt and his birth mother, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into The Beatles. The film is based on a biography written by Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird. The film received its US release on […]