A key scene in the drama featuring Gary Oldman as Churchill might be stretching the truth a bit — but the filmmakers have done their research "Darkest Hour" / Jack English/Focus Features Steve Pond ...

But what it does is to out “Darkest Hour” as an Old Hollywood movie in 21st-century clothing. Churchill, in the end, did stand up to Hitler, but in the case of a scene like this one resistance ...

Biographical film dramas used to cover a lot of ground without, as a rule, showing a lot of artistry. That all changed around the time of “Capote” (2005), a movie that employed the then ...

The subway scene — in which London commuters tell Churchill to never give up — is fictional. The sentiments of the British people are not. Churchill gets similar support from his outer Cabinet.

“Darkest Hour ” “We called it ... And that was a tough scene because we had to put in the subway sounds so that it seemed like they were speeding up or slowing down. It’s only one stop.

The early, dark days of World War II was ripe with drama and a sense of doom for Great Britain — a theme that inspired three movies in 2017. The latest, “The Darkest Hour,” is the weakest of ...

(In one painful scene, Darkest Hour also remembers where the U.S. was at this point in time – asked for help, then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt offers, essentially, thoughts and prayers ...