A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Zone of Interest” (2024). A 12-certificate film about the Holocaust that shows none of the horror? That was highly intriguing to me going into this new one from Jonathan Glazer. Does the film have a powerful message?: definitely yes. Is it an interesting film to watch?: Hmm, … Read more
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Cure for Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz” (2023). I occasionally get sent screeners to review, well ahead of their potential distribution (especially their distribution in the UK). And this was one of them. Often these films turn out to be pretty dreadful ‘B’ movies. But “The Cure For … Read more
Jewry Trial. It’s the mid-90’s and Deborah Lipstadt (Rachael Weisz, “The Lobster“), an American professor of Holocaust studies at a US university has written a book naming and shaming David Irving (Timothy Spall, “Mr Turner”) as a Nazi-apologist who denies that the Holocaust ever happened. Filing a law suit against Penguin Books and Lipstadt in … Read more