In the tense seventy-two hours before D-Day, the fate of the largest seaborne invasion in history came down to something nobody could control: the weather. Pressure, the 2026 drama from director Anthony Maras, stars Andrew Scott as Group Captain James Stagg, the Scottish meteorologist entrusted with the most consequential forecast ever made, and Brendan Fraser as General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man who had to act on it. Adapted from David Haig's acclaimed stage play, with Kerry Condon, Chris Messina and Damian Lewis rounding out the cast, it tells the one D-Day story the movies had never touched.

A lifelong reader of everything Second World War, Darryl went into this advance screening with high hopes — and came out with his heart in his mouth. He shares why a film built on weather charts and quiet rooms gripped him harder than most action pictures, which two performances he can't stop thinking about, and the true story that has him planning a return trip to another wartime classic.

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