Rosie the Reviewer: a WW2 movies and shows podcast

🎥 This is a video episode! Watch the full conversation on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5QvD_wWI4M⁠This week on Rosie, we're back with a video episode, talking to actor Kara Killmer and writer Justin Strawhand about Jimmy (2026), the new film about James Stewart's war as a B-24 pilot, out in cinemas today. What is it like to be a leading lady in a notoriously male genre and the audience's way into Jimmy Stewart's not-so-public persona? What is it like working on Jimmy when his daughter is the executive producer? We asked all. And had meaningful conversations about the war after the war. Call it flak happy, call it battle fatigue, but we were glad to see it addressed. Our review of the movie follows next week.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week, we're back for the final part of A Small Light (2023), episodes seven and eight. The raid on the annex plays out almost word-for-word from Miep's memoir. These episodes run past the point where the popular story usually ends. We follow Miep, Jan and Otto all the way to the end and also shed some light on what happened to the people in the Annex and who the helpers were. And despite her very insistence in her book: Miep, you are a freaking hero.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week, we're back in the annex for part two of A Small Light (2023), episodes four to six. This is where Miep starts to crack: she shouts at two Nazis in the street, points at the ceiling every time someone says the word resistance, and finds out her best friend is nice, but not good.As always, we compare it to Miep's memoir. Because on occasion, this stuff feels too crazy to be real.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com 📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast 💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week, we're discussing A Small Light (2023). The National Geographic/Disney+ miniseries tells the story of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam for more than two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In this first of three episodes, we cover the first three of the series’ eight episodes. We look at how the series opens, and how it compares with what Miep herself wrote in her memoir about that morning, including the weather, the coat and the checkpoint. We also talk about what the series invents or changes, from her best friend Tess to her adoptive brother Cas, and why those choices work on screen.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week, we're discussing the classic Filipino film Oro, Plata, Mata (Gold, Silver, Death) (1982). This movie portrays class conflict, with WWII as an interesting backdrop. It's a visually stunning piece, with a perspective we don't often get in Western media, which, almost by default, makes for an interesting conversation in this episode.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week on Rosie, we're talking about Trial on the Road, a Soviet movie shot in 1971 but suppressed for 15 years and not released until 1986. It follows Red Army sergeant Lazarev, a former collaborator who tries to redeem himself with a partisan group operating behind German lines. Any guesses as to why it was banned for so long?🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week, we're discussing Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter, 2008), based on Jan Terlouw's beloved 1972 Dutch youth novel of the same name. The film follows a teenager named Michiel in the freezing winter of 1944-45, as the Netherlands suffers a famine under German occupation. When an RAF pilot falls from the sky into the woods near his village and his initial rescuer is incapacitated, Michiel must help the airman instead.Great excuse for Maartje to talk a bit about the Netherlands during the occupation.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week, we're discussing Schindler's List (1993). Bit late, perhaps, but worth the wait? We're both convinced that this is Steven Spielberg's best movie. 🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week on Rosie, we're discussing They Who Dare (1954), directed by Lewis Milestone. Based on the true story of Operation Anglo, it follows a mixed group of British and Greek commandos on a raid to destroy Axis airfields on the island of Rhodes in September 1942. We dig into the real mission and mostly whether the flag-waving is quieter than the American kind or just better at hiding it.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.

This week on Rosie, we're discussing the movie 1941 (1979), directed by Steven Spielberg. It's a comedy, believe it or not, about invasion panic in Los Angeles after the attack on Pearl Harbor. With a cast that includes John Belushi, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune, and Christopher Lee, it should have been a lot funnier than it was.🖥️ Visit our website: www.rosiethereviewer.com📸 Follow us on Instagram: @rosiethereviewerpodcast💬 Join the conversation, share with a friend, and leave a review. We would love to hear your thoughts.