Sam Mendes turns a family story from the Great War into a terrifyingly immersive movie experience, even if it does cheat a bit. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, ...

When composer Thomas Newman was approached for 1917, he was excited about the notion of working on a film unlike any that had been made before. “That was compelling all on its own,” Newman reflects. “ ...

"I never thought of it as a war movie," Mendes tells Inverse. "It adheres more to the structure of a thriller." “I never thought of it as a war movie,” says Mendes, who also wrote the script. “It ...

Sam Mendes’ impressive, at times stunning WWI epic “1917,” which earned best picture drama and best director prizes at the Golden Globes and has a new urgency given recent world events, fits on a ...

1917, the outstanding British epic with a stacked cast, has landed a new streaming home in the UK. Released in 2019 and ...

1917, the war drama directed by Sam Mendes, will have its world premiere in London on December 4 as a Royal Film Performance. The events are flagship fundraisers for the UK’s Film and TV Charity, ...

Director Sam Mendes consults with his two stars of the film '1917.' (Universal) In Sam Mendes’ World War I epic “1917,” violence doesn’t always come with a warning. The film’s structure — appearing to ...

Sometime after nightfall in “1917,” a gravely virtuosic dispatch from the front lines of World War I, a British soldier, Lance Cpl. Schofield (George MacKay), makes his way through a darkened building ...

The war movie is a Hollywood staple, so much so that there might not be much new to say. Yet like “Dunkirk” a few years back, director Sam Mendes has found a way to breathe life into the genre with a ...

After two outings in the James Bond universe, director Sam Mendes decided to make a film that would pay homage to his grandfather’s experiences as a soldier during the First World War. That movie is ...