Rosie the Reviewer: a WW2 movies and shows podcast

In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Empire of the Sun (1987), Steven Spielberg's adaptation of J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel about a kid more or less growing up in a Japanese POW-camp and making it home. We feel a little old because Christian Bale is in this and he's a child.
Also: the Shanghai International Settlement, and Cadilacs of the Sky, baby.

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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss The Forgotten Army (2020), a Hindi-language miniseries directed by Kabir Khan about the Indian National Army: the soldiers who broke away from the British Indian Army and allied with Japan to fight for India's independence during World War II. We talk about the all-female combat regiment, the Rani of Jhansi, and World War II as a hinge in history. For India, it meant independence, though the end of World War II was only the beginning of that fight.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss The Thin Red Line (1998), directed by Terrence Malick and based on James Jones's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. This might be the most philosophical anti-war film ever made. We discuss Guadalcanal as paradise, and the antagonist: the war as a whole. Not even the Americans are heroes in this one. The most heroic thing they did? Leave.
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This week on Rosie the Reviewer, we talk about Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026), directed by Tom Harper and written by Steven Knight. The film serves as the finale of the Peaky Blinders TV series (2013-2022) and is set during World War II, following an ageing Tommy Shelby as he navigates Nazi counterfeit schemes, the Birmingham Blitz, and a son he barely knows. We get into the writing choices that don’t land, the female characters who deserved better, the real history of Operation Bernhard and the Birmingham Blitz, and what made the original series work, and why this film loses it.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we’re joined by Lisa Koolhoven, Dutch historian and WWII Rotterdam bike tour guide, and Kristen Hayford, American-in-the-Netherlands, who joined forces to make the podcast Beb & Bob | Collateral Damage about their journey to discover whether their grandparents' paths may have crossed in the Forgotten Bombing of Rotterdam by the Allies.
Together, we review The Shadow in My Eye (2021), a Danish film based on Operation Carthage, during which the RAF accidentally bombed a school in Copenhagen in March 1945.
We discuss the myth of the faultless liberator, what mainstream war media consistently refuses to show, and why the words ‘collateral damage’ carry so much weight.
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