Welcome to Rosie the Reviewer, a Dutch-Canadian female-led WW2 media podcast. A new episode airs every Friday!
Rosie the Reviewer is a passion project, built episode by episode. If you’d like to support what we do, you can help keep us on the air or pick up some Rosie merch. We’re working on more ways for you to get involved in the future.
In part two of two, we discuss the Canadian TV show Bomb Girls, specifically the second half of season two and then that thing they call a movie that came after it. Are we harsh? Maybe a little. Is it entertaining? Sure is!
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Days of Glory (2006), the Rachid Bouchareb film that follows a fictional group of North African soldiers fighting with the Free French forces to liberate Europe. We talk about the film’s honest depiction of colonial racism, the ensemble cast, what the film gets right and where it falls flat, and the real history of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers whose story went largely untold for decades.
In episode 20 (are you proud? We’re proud!), we discuss Allied, a movie Mark requested! And by discuss, we mean we razz on it for 40 minutes. We hope you enjoy it anyway, Mark. Thanks for your request ;).
This week, we discuss the movie Anthropoid, about the mission of the same name, set up to kill the evilest of evils
Reinhard Heydrich. Perhaps one of the only evils to get the ending he deserved. (Spoilers, it was slow and painful).
In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we’re wrapping up our three-part journey through Masters of the Air with a look at episodes 7-9. We’re once again joined by George! From the marches out of Stalag Luft III to Rosie Rosenthal’s decision to fly more missions and Croz sleeping through D-Day. We get into the show’s depiction of the Tuskegee Airmen and see where everybody ends up. Safe flight, Masters!
This week, Sam and Maartje discuss one of their lowest-rated movies thusfar: The Catcher Was a Spy. It’s a movie about baseball player Moe Berg, who, unlike the film, was a fascinating character. Come complain about the movie with us while simultaneously bigging up Moe, please. Also, baseball, anyone?
Rosie the Reviewer is a passion project, built episode by episode. If you’d like to support what we do, you can help keep us on the air or pick up some Rosie merch. We’re working on more ways for you to get involved in the future.