New Releases
Information on New War Movie Releases
New on DVD 5/8
There are probably more (and if I find them I’ll edit this post!) but here are a pair of "double feature" DVD’s from Republic starring the Duke. The Fighting Seabees/Wake of the Red Witch (1949) THE FIGHTING SEABEES – All-American hero John Wayne takes a crew of construction workers and turns them into one of WWII’s... »
In Theaters 5/11
Home of the Brave Where did this one come from?! Out of nowhere! I hadn’t heard of this at all until just now! The film tells the story of four American soldiers nearing the end of their tours of duty in Iraq. Shortly after learning their unit will soon return home, they are sent on one... »
Rescue Dawn (7/4)
Just learned of this movie, expected in theatres on 7/4 of this year (fighting the Transformers juggernaut, have to flip a coin for this one!) Christian Bale and Steve Zahn will star in Rescue Dawn, an action drama by Werner Herzog and based on the director’s acclaimed 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly. The... »
New on DVD 4/24
This week a trio of classics makes with some DVD releases, Two Four from the much respected "Fox War Classics", and the first from Warner Brothers…. None of which have reviews here on WMB…yet! [4/26 EDIT Number 2: And a fifth! That makes FOUR from the... »
New DVDs for 3/27
A Pair of 1930’s films appeared on DVD today (again!), this time it is: 1938’s The Dawn Patrol In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled “crates” and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can’t make the “brass hats” at headquarters see... »
“300″ Opens March 9th
“300″, a movie about the battle of Thermopylae, opens this weekend on the 9th. I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll be skipping this one. Just on the “style-factor” alone. It looks too much like some video game to be worth anything. I may be wrong but there’s a point at which style,... »
New In Theaters 2/16 — Days of Glory (2006)
Looks like a foreign film that will be seeing a limited release here in the states (not anywhere near me, like I have the time anyway!) The liberation of Italy, Provence, the Alps, the Rhone Valley, the Vosges and Alsace marked vital stages in the Allied victory. And in the place that France was able... »
New DVDs for 2/6
New this week is an early classic, and a new classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by... »
New DVDs 1/30
New war movies on DVD this week: Flyboys (2006) … Directed by Oscar winner Tony Bill, this epic drama tells the true story of the Lafayette Escadrille, a group of Americans who volunteered for the French military before the United States entered World War I. Farm boy Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) joins up and soon finds... »
