And just like that, October has come and gone! Thank you to all the brave souls who made it out for Horror Fest, we had a scary good time (but perhaps the real horror was how cold it was in the room!).
For the month of November I have tried to show a war film in honor of Veteran's Day. This year we will be watching Fury.
Fury is an American war film written, directed, and co-produced by David Ayer. It stars Brad Pitt with Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as members of an American tank crew fighting in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of the European theater of World War II. Ayer was influenced by the service of military veterans in his family and by reading books such as Belton Y. Cooper's Death Traps, a 1998 memoir that underscores the high casualty rates suffered by American tank crews in combat against their better-equipped German counterparts.
The film currently has a 75% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and A.O. Scott, writing for the New York Times, praised the film saying this in his review, "“Fury,” which takes its title from the name painted on the barrel of the tank’s big gun, is less an epic than a series of tense and focused episodes. It’s about the grind of tactics rather than the sweep of strategy, the struggle for local objectives rather than ultimate goals. The battle scenes are staged with blunt, ground-level virtuosity, and with a welcome regard for spatial and visual coherence. When the tank needs to cross an expanse of muddy ground, you feel every jolt and swerve. And there is a lot of muddy ground to cover."
We will be meeting Thursday, Nov. 19th (a week earlier, due to Thanksgiving) at 5:00 pm (a half hour earlier due to movie length).
Here's a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94n3eWOWXM
Hope to see you there!
