Oscars’ war movies: Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Academy Award-themed series continues with nine features, including two Best Picture winners and three nominees.
War Movies
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Submarine Movie Feast: Memorial Day TCM Films
7 minutes readSubmarine 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 + War Hero or Serial Killer?
11 minutes readRobert 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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Tim Hetherington Killed by mortar fire in Libya: Oscar-Nominated Restrepo Co-Director, Photojournalist was covering civil war.
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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 Box Office: Critical Dud Tops Chart
5 minutes readBattle Los Angeles 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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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, …
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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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Abel Gance Anti-War Classic + Lon Chaney: SFSFF
11 minutes readJ’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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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.
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Casablanca (Movie 1942): Less Than Great Classic
15 minutes readCasablanca (movie 1942) review: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in Michael Curtiz’s romance classic. But is it truly great cinema? Top-notch Paul Henreid costars.
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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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‘Saving Private Ryan’ + ‘Harvey Milk’: Steven Spielberg WWII B Movie + Murdered Gay Politician
7 minutes readSaving 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 …
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300 (Movie 2006): Dazzling + Brainless Historical Epic
3 minutes read300 (movie 2006) review: Starring Gerard Butler as King Leonidas of Sparta, Zack Snyder’s historical epic is visually stunning, proudly gory, and lacking both a brain and a heart.
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Merry Christmas (Movie 2005): Softhearted Anti-War Drama
1 minutes readMerry 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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Andrzej Wajda Tackling Katyn Massacre + ‘3 War Films’ DVD
3 minutes readThe 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.
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Innocent Voices (2004): Salvadoran Boyhood Horrors
4 minutes readInnocent Voices (2004) review: A boy faces the horrors of El Salvador’s Civil War in Luis Mandoki’s sentimental yet disturbing drama.
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The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) review: Robert Siodmak’s Oscar-nominated political drama pits mass murderers against a serial killer.
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San Sebastian Awards: War-Related Movies + Woody Allen
8 minutes readWar-related movies were the clear favorites at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, where Lifetime honors went to Woody Allen and Annette Bening.
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Downfall Box Office: ‘Unlikely’ Hitler Hit
5 minutes readDownfall box office: One of Germany’s most expensive and most controversial movies ever made, Adolf Hitler drama is a major commercial hit.
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Hitler Movie: How to Portray Most Hated 20th-Century Leader?
3 minutes readThe Adolf Hitler movie Downfall raises a question: Should the world’s most hated leader be portrayed as a complex human being?
Ender’s Game (Movie 2013): Self-Serious Superficiality
Ender’s Game (movie 2013) review: Gavin Hood’s self-important yet superficial dystopian thrill-ride. Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford star.
‘Fade Out Fade In’: Racial Tensions & Hollywood Mansions + Right-Wing Pro-War Propaganda
Fade Out Fade In: Flaring racial tensions and decaying Hollywood Mansions + right-wing pro-war propaganda with iconic all-American hero.
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 …
Baghdad High (movie 2007) review: Documentary focuses on four Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are.
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 …
David O. Russell’s Iraq War Documentary Rescued
Co-director David O. Russell’s Iraq War documentary Soldiers Pay has landed U.S. distribution despite Warner Bros.’ refusal to release it.