Category: War
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Interview with Intellect Books
In the chaos of 2020 I didn’t post this, but here’s a chat I had with the lovely James from Intellect Books. Mostly we chat about war and cinema (my first book The Hollywood War Film was published by Intellect in 2017), but there’s a small nod at the end of the conversation to Material […]
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Dunkirk (2017)
David Cox’s no doubt controversial take on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has spurred me to writing, and not, as you might think, to leap to the film’s defence. I saw Dunkirk on Saturday morning; not in IMAX, as Nolan would make everyone if he could legally do so, but at my local cinema, on a normal screen. I’d […]
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and ‘othering’
I booted up Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare lastnight, for the first time since its release. I remember enjoying playing through the single-player campaign (I’ve never been much for online multiplayer) way back in 2007, and being staggered at some of the visuals, even with it running at lowest settings on my old Toshiba laptop. […]
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What is it good for?
I sunk about two hours into This War of Mine, and feel I’ve barely scratched the surface. As such, what follows are my very rudimentary notes on the early experience of the game.
Daniel Binns 