Thanksgiving 2020 was pretty different in many ways but I’m grateful that my family and I were able to stay true to one longstanding tradition: watching some great war movies…
Films about the Vietnam War — fought in the exotic jungles of Southeast Asia during the hippy, trippy late 1960s and early 1970s — have always had a surreal quality…
Scottish actor Sir Sean Connery, who died this past Saturday, October 31, 2020 at the age of 90, starred in 74 films during his six-decade-long career, including five of the…
The astonishingly raw four-part documentary Alpha Company: Iraq Diary, now streaming on YouTube, comes complete with an astonishing backstory. In 2005, with the War in Iraq well into its second…
I was in middle school on September 11, 2001 so I’m hardly an historical authority but I would say that 9/11 has been the defining event for my generation. Even…
While I thoroughly enjoyed my detour into big-budget Hollywood war movie making with last week’s review of Greyhound, this week I’m headed back to the gritty deserts of Iraq for…
I’ve been looking forward to Greyhound since I first wrote about it as a coming attraction back on March 27th. Little did we know then that the Covid-19 lockdown would…
Legendary film composer Ennio Morricone died this week on July 6th at the age of 91. During a career that spanned seven decades, Morricone scored more than 500 films, including…
I streamed The Outpost the second it came out this past Friday, July 3rd, and it was even more amazing than I could have predicted. The film is an instant…
Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company Make a Life-Changing Documentary