Submarine movie evening: Underwater war waged in TCM’s Memorial Day films In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies has gone all red, white, and blue this 2017 Memorial Day weekend, presenting…
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Robert Redford Movies: Two of the Biggest Blockbusters Ever and War Hero or Serial Killer? The future Hollywood icon in an early subversive war movie.
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Veterans Day Movies: Good, Bad and Worse from Patton to The Sullivans (whose story inspired Saving Private Ryan) and subversive Pride of the Marines.
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Ender’s Game (2013) movie review: Gavin Hood’s self-important yet superficial dystopian thrill-ride stars Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford.
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All Quiet on the Western Front with Lew Ayres. Synopsis: World War I: A group of German schoolboys soon learn that war has absolutely nothing to do with either glory…
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Battle Los Angeles movie box office: Critical dud has no chance of breaking even in the domestic market. Also, Red Riding Hood is a total flop. Amanda Seyfried stars.
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Fade Out Fade In: Flaring racial tensions and decaying Hollywood Mansions + right-wing pro-war propaganda with iconic all-American hero.
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Oscar war movies: The Hurt Locker. If Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it’ll be the eighth out-and-out war movie…
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J’accuse!: Abel Gance Anti-War Classic restoration and Lon Chaney + Bimbo the Gibbon and best Buster Keaton movie? All at San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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From Here to Eternity movie: Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love (top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film…
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Casablanca (1942) movie review: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in Michael Curtiz’s romance classic. But is it truly great cinema?
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Cinecon movies: Uncut version of the pre-Code WWI drama The Eagle and the Hawk and the gender-role-reversal silent The Home Maker.
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Baghdad High (2007) Movie Review: Documentary focuses on four Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are.
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Zack Snyder’s ultra-violent historical epic movie 300 stars Gerard Butler as King Leonidas of Sparta, the one stand-out in the non-battle sequences.
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Merry Christmas with Alex Ferns, Daniel Brühl, Guillaume Canet. Inspired by an actual World War I ceasefire that took place around Christmastime 1914, director-screenwriter Christian Carion’s Merry Christmas is a…
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Yossi and Jagger with Yehuda Levi and Ohad Knoller. Yossi and Jagger is a tragic love story set in a most unlikely place: an Israeli army camp. Directed by Eytan…
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Set during El Salvador’s Civil War, Luis Mandoki’s sentimental yet horrifying Innocent Voices shows how the carnage affects a little boy’s life.
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Robert Siodmak’s 1957 political drama The Devil Strikes at Night asks whether serial killers are any worse than socially sanctioned mass murderers.
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Co-director David O. Russell’s Iraq War documentary has landed U.S. distribution despite Warner Bros. turndown due to ‘political propaganda’ fears during an election year.
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Likely one of Germany’s most controversial movies ever made - and one of its costliest - Downfall has turned out to be a major box office hit.
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The Adolf Hitler movie controversy surrounding Downfall revolves around the following question: Should the world’s most hated leader be portrayed as a complex human being?
Tim Hetherington Killed by mortar fire in Libya: Oscar-Nominated Restrepo Co-Director, Photojournalist was covering civil war.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence with 1970s pop icon David Bowie. He stands in the courtroom, fully inhabiting his allotted space behind the bar, clad in fatigues and a rakish scarf,…
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise box office: Pricy vehicles for the two stars are domestic disappointments, but awards season should give a boost to one of them.
Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks. Tom Sizemore, and Matt Damon. Steven Spielberg’s 1998 Best Picture nominee Saving Private Ryan will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion…
The WWII-era Katyn massacre is the topic of Andrzej Wajda’s next project + Criterion’s ‘3 War Films’ DVD includes the classic Ashes and Diamonds.
War-related movies were the clear favorites at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, where Lifetime Achievement honors went to Hollywood celebrities Woody Allen and Annette Bening.