The sight of Allied prisoners of war (POW) working on a difficult construction job under direction of their Japanese captors is a familiar one to movie fans: British director David Lean’s 1957 The ...

Railroads reek of romance, of mystery, of an uncertain future and a vague past. When watching a train trundle by, one is never quite sure where it’s been or where it’s going, but, somehow, its ...

"Sometime, the hating has to stop," are the words that wrap-up the trailer of "The Railway Man." As the teaser suggests, this beautiful story of revenge, honor and forgiveness leaves the audience ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shortly before wrapping up filming for "The Railway Man," a World War Two drama about a former British Army officer and victim of torture, actor Colin Firth dreamt he was drawing ...

Stellan Skarsgard and Hiroyuki Sanada have joined the cast of The Railway Man. Based on Eric Lomax's memoir of the same name, The Railway Man follows Lomax (Colin Firth), a former British army officer ...

Even as “12 Years a Slave” was garnering four-star reviews and winning numerous awards on its way to the Oscar for best picture, many film fans told me they were sure it was a fine and important ...

Jonathan Teplitzky takes an old-fashioned — and dull as ditchwater — approach to this moving reconciliation story There’s something decidedly old-fashioned — and also dull as ditchwater — about ...

Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife forced to revisit the trauma of his WWII past in Jonathan Teplitzky's drama based on the true story of Eric Lomax. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Draped in layers of mousy browns and hidden under a bristly mustache and eyeglasses the size of a cartoon inspector’s magnifying glass, Colin Firth stars as Eric Lomax, a lonely, middle-aged English ...