Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s own brother among them.

MOVIE REVIEW

In a rare humorous [admittedly morbid] moment in Sam Mendes’ stunningly entrancing war film 1917, star George MacKay slips and shoves his hand into the bloody, open cavity of a dead man lying beside him. The movie, like MacKay, plunges itself into you in much the same way, grabbing you from the inside and refusing to let go long after the end credits have rolled.
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