No. 95 (2018) Journey's End October 30th.

Film No 95 (2018) Oct. 28th.  6.30PM  PALACE CINEMAS Raine Square,  Perth City . 

"He's led the company through all sorts of rotten times, it's been a big strain on the man." (Osborne makes Raleigh aware of the change he may notice in his friend Stanhope).

Many good movies start as a novel before being adapted to the stage then filmed for the screen. Journey's End is a case in point and while I have not indulged in either the book or the play, the cinema retell is brilliantly powerful. I'm only sorry I didn't save my viewing till Remembrance Day. Hopefully it will become an annual tribute film for the millions of lives lost between 1914 - 1918. Sam Claflin as Cpt Stanhope and Paul Bettany as the stolid Lt Osborne lead a platoon who are rostered to the frontline just prior to a german push. Journey's End, using mainly the chemistry Stanhope displays with his company, will quite simply take you into the mud and the grime of the trenches, insist you experience the sheer fear and bravery of men about to die, or if they survive, return to their loved ones a mere shell of the men they once were. 10GUMS.