Here, I’m taking my next look at a classic film that A Reader Recommended. Last time out, I gave you my take on the martial arts horror film The Boxer’s Omen. This time, my thanks to reader GUNNY KOON USMC…
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War Movies
The Longest Day (1962): Movie Review
Guest blogger Nathanel Hood writes: In hindsight, it’s a little unfair that The Longest Day was destined to be released in 1962, the same year as David Lean’sLawrence of Arabia. As a result, The Longest Day will always be overshadowed by…
Read more →Battleship Potemkin (1925): Guest Review
Guest writer Chris Edwards presents a look at a groundbreaking film classic, Battleship Potemkin: “Part One: The Men and the Maggots.” The words are rendered in tall, heavy text. White against black. Spartan, unflinching. Unluxurious, unadorned. Simple, functional. Communist. Scene…
Read more →The Big Red One: The Reconstruction: 1980/2004
Guest blogger Will Silver writes: This may be one of the hardest reviews I’ve ever written. Above all, I want to do justice to the film and to the memory of the Fightin’ First, The Big Red One. Like never…
Read more →Movie Poll: What’s Your Favorite Military Comedy?
The Messenger (2009) War Drama Starring Woody Harrelson Movie Review
The other movie about Iraq that was nominated for multiple Academy Awards is The Messenger, an absorbing drama that was critically acclaimed but little seen. Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson (nominated for Best Supporting Actor) play soldiers who take on…
Read more →Movie Poll – What’s the best ’60s war movie?
What Was the Best Film About the Vietnam War
“Bastards” With An “a”: The Original Inglorious Bastards
Now that drive-in genre auteur Quentin Tarantino’s long-talked-about World War II saga Inglourious Basterds has finally made it onto the big screen–and captured the box office brass ring on its opening weekend–two questions remain in the public’s mind: What’s up…
Read more →Inglourious Basterds (2009): Movie Review
“Movie Irv” Slifkin launches a movie review feature on MovieFanFare.com with his unscripted thoughts about Quentin Tarantino’s long-in-development, finally here, already controversial deconstruction of the “men on a mission” war film subgenre. Has he saved you the price of a…
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