The final days of high school are fodder for dozens of films over the years. Typically, things don’t work out well for those teens that are shedding their high school lives in favor of becoming adults. And that’s especially the case in the upcoming film, “Here Are The Young Men.”

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As seen in the new trailer for “Here Are The Young Men,” the film follows the story of a group of high school kids that are happy to be leaving school and want to end their student careers with one last fun bender.

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There are few insights as shopworn as “war is hell,” but there’s a sequence early in Sam Mendes’s new WWI epic “1917” that brings that old chestnut into, particularly sharp focus. The film’s protagonists, Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), men on a mission of utter urgency and desperation, have just stepped onto the “no man’s land” separating British and German troops in northern France.

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WWI marked the confluence of terrifying new technologies unleashed on combatants of both sides and Europe itself. Machine guns—mowing down swaths of soldiers like never before. Soldiers—with tanks at their backs—bearing down on the enemy in cover and shooting streams of blistering flame. The gruesome suffering from poison gas was a whole other nightmare, and the devastation lent poignant credence when H.G. Wells dubbed the battle, “the war to end all wars.”

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It’s into this setting that Oscar-winner Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) and the man behind the camera of the last two thrilling exploits of James Bond (“Skyfall” and “Spectre”) drops you into with his upcoming World War I film “1917.” Mendes reteams once again with the heralded composer and cinematographer combo of Thomas Newman and Roger Deakins to tell his second war story since 2005’s “Jarhead.”

Here’s the official synopsis:

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Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917.

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