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This is a review of Warner Bros. Entertainment's Dunkirk three-disc Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet set. To read my July 2017 review of Christopher Nolan's film, check out this post: Movie Review: 'Dunkirk' On December 19, 2017, Warner Bros. Entertainment released the home media editions of  Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan's World War II dramatic take on Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of nearly 400,000 British, French, and Belgian soldiers from the beaches at Dunkerque, a French port city on the English Channel coast, under unceasing Luftwaffe attacks and the threat of annihilation or capture by advancing German armies.     Nominated for eight Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Production Design) and winner of other accolades, including three Golden Globe awards (Best Picture - Drama, Best Director, and Best Original Score), Dunkirk is now available...

Dunkirk (2017) Written and directed by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy Dunkirk is one of the great untold stories in modern cinema. Having made a trip on a small boat across the Channel about 25 years ago, the roughness of the water, the sheer physical challenge of making that crossing - but without anybody dropping bombs, without traveling into a war zone - cemented in my mind an extraordinarily high level of admiration for the people who in 1940 just got into those little boats and came over to help the soldiers. - Christopher Nolan , in a Time interview, explaining why he chose to make a movie about the Dunkirk evacuation.    Christopher Nolan's latest film, Dunkirk, is a World War II-set drama that looks a lot like an epic but feels like a thriller. It has many of the elements of a post- Saving Private...

(C) 2005 Warner Bros. Pictures If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart. Director Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins”  is essentially the “origins” installment of the saga, doing to the Caped Crusader what Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie did for the Man of Steel over 30 years ago. Starring Christian Bale (“Empire of the Sun,”  “Terminator Salvation”) in the dual role of billionaire Bruce Wayne/Batman, Nolan’s reimagining of the beginning of the Dark Knight saga borrows heavily from Bob Kane’s original 1930s comic book story and Frank Miller’s 1980s graphic novels. The movie, co-written by Nolan and David S. Goyer (“Dark City,” “Blade’) begins with a flashback that takes the viewer back to when Bruce Wayne was eight years old and living in Wayne Manor with his parents Thomas (Linus Roache) and Martha (Sara Stewart). While playing with his friend Rachel Dawes, Bruce falls into a well and n...