"Saving Private Ryan" is often hailed for its brutally realistic combat footage, especially the harrowing Omaha Beach scene. However, retired Army historian Dave Hogan, who spent 37 years at the U.S.

But because the budgets for British films are dwarfed by their Hollywood counterparts, they are rarely subject to the same commercial pressures, resulting in a gritty realism likely to question the ...

A bleak and brooding yet beautifully poignant film genre and a ... of artifice and gritty realism — those amazingly detailed and wide-reaching sets, for example, that seemed to hold the ...

the second half also shows how grounded it is in realism. For example, the use of a real Buddhist tattoo at a pivotal plot point brings out the biggest laughs you will have from any horror film.