With Tarantino’s Basterds currently carving up critical opinion in the style of 1940s Berlin, we figured it was a perfect excuse to crack open the beers and watch a few two-fisted, boy’s own adventure WWII flicks. It’s all very well going on about Rambo and Arnie in Predator, but when it comes to kicking goose-stepping Nazi ass, you need a different calibre of hero entirely.
Join us as STS dons it’s goggles and fleece-lined RAF jacket, pops a pipe in it’s gob, and, in our very best BBC English, concocts some cockamamey mission to rescue Winston Churchill’s secret exploding cigars from a Bavarian castle. This type of who dares wins needs a very special set of protagonists, so join us as we bring you 6 of the best: Nazi Fighters!
Having seemingly been in hiding following Harrison Ford clunker K-19, The Hurt Locker marks a welcome return to action for Katheryn Bigelow, with a true life account of Gulf War II based on Mark Boal’s book about bomb disposal experts. And it’s one of the director’s finest works. A loud and proud combat film that manages to inexorably link itself to Gulf War II, but remains fiercely apolitical, focusing on one small group of men and their mission. Here, bombs aren’t political tools – they’re volatile explosive devices- and this refusal to comment makes for some thrilling cinema.
