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Last October, a small Russian production company called Aurum released The Best in Hell, a 107-minute feature film chronicling a brutal struggle for territory in an unnamed European city. The scenes of urban warfare are visceral and raw, and the only respite from the violence comes in the form of periodic tactical lectures aimed directly at the viewer.   The setting for The Best in Hell  is the current war in Ukraine. Online detectives seem to disagree about which of the war’s recent battles the movie…

Netflix’s new limited series Transatlantic is the reversal of the recent comedy starring Elvis as Agent Elvis. Transatlantic came to Netflix with a guarantee that all viewers who tuned in would be instantly tuned in and learn more about the story of Varian Fry, Mary Jayne Gold, and Villa Air-Bel. From unorthodox co-creators Anna Winger and Daniel Handler, the series is a bubbly adventure strand that leans more towards its classic Hollywood-style romance than Holocaust-bordering obscurity.…