The East Fremantle Oval scoreboard has gone. Victim of the long overdue redevelopment of the oval Old East and the Sharks have called home since 1953.
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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Time for Freo to sober up by Les Everett
Some people only drink to celebrate so the sobering observations offered here won’t be needed for that kind of Fremantle fan.
Continue readingTrue Evil On Display As Nazis Plot Mass Murder by Richard Jones
A look at The Conference
A movie based entirely about a meeting between 15 men and a lone female secretary shouldn’t promise anything out of the ordinary.
But in mid-January 1942, 15 Germans – particularly top military, SS, Nazi party and Gestapo officers – and also with half-a-dozen top civilian departmental heads there as well – meet to discuss how they were going to dispose of a large proportion of Europe’s Jews.
Continue readingThe spectacle of war from the German infantry side by Richard Jones
A look at All Quiet On the Western Front
When you look back at war films you’ve seen not too many are told from the enemy viewpoint.
Tora Tora Tora devotes a fair bit of time to the Japanese pilots and air crews responsible for the surprise 1941 bombing attack on the US fleet stationed at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.
But it’s only partially about the Japanese military.
In director and co-writer Edward Berger’s World War 1 film I’m reviewing here everything is based around some of the young men in German infantry battalions stationed on the French front lines.
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