From time to time, a fascinating occurrence transpires in Hollywood filmmaking in that two films with similar plots get released in close order to each other. Think of how
Deep Impact and
Armageddon both were large-scale disaster movies about massive asteroids headed for Earth released between April and July of 1998. A pair of magician dramas from 2006,
The Illusionist and
The Prestige, provide another great example of this as does
Olympus Has Fallen and
White House Down choosing to tell action-packed tales of the White House being under siege. Of course, that whole
Antz/A Bug's Life debacle of Fall 1998 is likely the most famous example of this. Our newest entry in this trend is a pair of Winston Churchill biopics released in the span of six months in 2017. One of them is
Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman, the other is
Churchill and the latter happens to be the subject of this review.
