简介:Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from officious Colonel Howfield but with backing from sympathetic General Mitford they produce twenty-three issues of a satirical magazine - its articles represented on screen in black and white - which boosts morale and even gets mentioned in the Tatler. The press is destroyed by a German shell but another is found and the paper's title changed to fit in with wherever the regiment is deployed.
简介:Ibn Battuta works as a journalist for an Algerian daily newspaper. While covering community clashes in Southern Algeria, he finds himself incidentally picking up the trail of long forgotten uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate, back in 8th-9th century Iraq. For the purpose of his investigation he goes to Beirut, a city that used to embody the hopes and struggles of the Arab World...
简介:坎(托尼·贾 Tony Jaa 饰)是一位武艺高强的拳师,精通碎象拳。他厌倦了尔虞我诈的江湖,和心爱的大象一起归隐田园,过着风平浪静的生活。然而,某日,黑社会出高价想要买走坎的大象,坎当然不会同意,谁知道第二天,大象便神秘失踪,这定和黑社会脱不了干系。与此同时,黑帮大 佬被人谋杀,而种种的迹象和线索均指向坎,一时间,坎成为了众矢之的,只能再度踏上逃亡的旅途。一路上追击他的,除了警方和黑帮分子,还有象园老板的一双侄女,除此之外,坎还必须争分夺秒,寻回心爱的大象。落入如此凶险的境地,坎能够获得最终的胜利吗?