When Amazon Prime’s The Tomorrow War came up on my radar, it beckoned like an oasis to my Covid-parched war movie soul. I mean, what’s not to love about Chris…
Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee’s 2020 film about five Black Army soldiers who fought together in the jungles of Vietnam is a whole lot of movie. It’s a buddy film,…
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…
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’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…
The Battle of Long Tan on August 18, 1966 during the Vietnam War is a legend in Australia and New Zealand but barely registers on our consciousness here in the…
I’ve watched countless numbers of war movies in my three decades on the planet, and each one shows the extreme adversity that military members experience every day. But it…
I’ll be honest, I love POW escape war movies! There is something strangely intriguing about watching a group of soldiers devise a plan to get home and defeat the…
Da 5 Bloods Celebrates Brotherhood, Family and Black History