Suffering from The Crown withdrawals since you finished bingeing all of season two in precisely 72 hours? Yeah, us too.
If you’re longing for those weirdly attractive British accents, the royal corgis and history lessons that come with a side of popcorn, Darkest Hour is the film to see this long weekend.
Because before The Queen and Princess Margaret could talk – or in Margaret’s case, smoke cigarettes – the fate of the British people and the royal family were in one man’s hands.
Winston Churchill’s.
We met Churchill in the opening episodes of The Crown season one, as the ageing politician struggling to let go of ‘the way things have always been done’ in a ‘modern’ world.
But if not for his tenacity to go against the opinions of powerful men decades earlier, those traditions may not have survived to hold onto.
Darkest Hour is nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Gary Oldman’s portrayal of the wartime Prime Minister.
Oldman’s Churchill is at the height of his political career, ascending into the office of the Prime Minister at a time when the invasion of Nazi Germany into Britain seemed imminent, and he was not expected to succeed at stopping it.
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Oldman portrays a brilliant Churchill. Definitely Oscar worthy, and the writers deserve a nod too, for something we know the outcome of and 70 years in the past - this movie had me on the edge of my seat!
Wonderful movie Oldman brilliant actor