A gang of grunts learn the hard truths of war in Sam Fuller’s THE STEEL HELMET
Sam Fuller’s movies always begin with some kind of eyecatching visuals. In The Steel Helmet, there’s a single shot of a punctured army helmet...
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Glory
Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989) tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first major American military units made...
COMING HOME: FURIOUS VIETNAM VET FILMS
The Vietnam War was one of the most disgraceful conflicts America has ever been involved in. The government and the irresponsible politicians who ran...
APOCALYPSE NOW – Ride of the Valkyries Sequence
There’s an old saying that goes “War is hell” and that is surely true but when you watch Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic Apocalypse...
OLIVER STONE – Furious Filmmaker
For over 30 years Writer-Director Oliver Stone has made films that are often considered controversial and daring but above all, remain extremely important and...
The Films of SYDNEY POLLACK
Throughout my years of watching movies, the late Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) was a filmmaker whose work I followed and came to really admire. Admittedly...
POSTERS: Woody Allen’s BANANAS
In this 1971 screwball comedy, Woody Allen plays Fielding Mellish a neurotic New Yorker who tries to win the love of a political activist...
PHOTOS: Casualties of War
Brian DePalma’s 1989 masterpiece Casualties of War is not only brilliantly directed and acted but it is also one of the greatest anti-war movies...
PHOTOS: The Dirty Dozen
Director Robert Aldrich was a man who seemed to love different genres of cinema. Just look at his filmography and you can see he...
PHOTOS: East of Eden
Based on the book by John Steinbeck, Elia Kazan’s 1955 cinema classic EAST OF EDEN is set in Salinas Valley, California during World War...
