David Haig

'Pressure' Review: Brendan Fraser is Dwight D. Eisenhower in gripping WWII drama on run-up to D-Day

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of films about World War II. You'd think by now that everything there is to know about it has already been depicted on the big screen. But not so fast!"Pressure" revisits the turbulent planning of D-Day, specifically the attempt to track the weather for the invasion of Normandy.

A Surprising Spin On the World War II Drama

The World War II drama has been a hearty staple of the film industry’s diet for more than 80 years—even as Hollywood has turned away from the kind of meat-and-potatoes offering that the genre represents. And after so many decades, directors somehow still keep finding new narrative nooks and crannies to explore. Take Anthony Maras’s latest movie, Pressure, which asks a question that had never occurred to me: Just how stressful was it to be the person tasked with picking the opportune moment...

Meteorologists were central to D-Day. 'Pressure' tells the story of navigating uncertainty