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New on DVD 7/17
This week all I could find releasing on DVD was this little tidbit from Argentina, a film about the local perspective on the Falkland Islands conflict of ‘82: Blessed By Fire (2005) A powerful Argentinean antiwar film in the tradition of American Vietnam films such as Full Metal Jacket and Coming Home, Blessed By Fire is... »
“The Company” Mini-Series from TNT
Unsure when the promotion for this started, but I just saw the ads on TNT. This looks like it could be good. Really good…. Here’s the blurb from the official site: With this cast, and the same minds that brought us Band of Brothers, I suddenly can’t wait! This summer, TNT proudly presents The Company, the... »
Bump in “Valkyrie” Filming
Heh, this is kind of ironic, don’t you think? Germany has barred Bryan Singer and company from shooting at a German military site because the filmâs star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist. The German government does not recognize as a church. According to THR, Berlin says Scientology masquerades as a religion to make money, a... »
From the Navy Archives
This is kind of funny, coming 40 years later…. Navy refuses to cooperate for Ransohoff filmBy ARMY ARCHERDFrom the Army Archerd Archive May 16, 1967 GOOD MORNING: Rock Hudson requested an OK — via Sen. George Murphy’s office — to visit a submarine in preparation for his role in Filmways’ “Ice Station Zebra.” However, Navy channels informed... »
Gandolfini to Star in Iraq Film
From Reuters: By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three months after his notorious blackout farewell from “The Sopranos,” actor James Gandolfini will return to HBO with a documentary about wounded U.S. veterans of the Iraq war, the network said on Monday. “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq” will debut on the pay-cable TV channel on September... »
Penn to Star in Stone’s Next Vietnam Film?
Given Stone’s propensity for making films that exude controversy, I’m not really sure this is one that should be made. Following in the recent trend of war movie… “revisionism” for lack of a better term…. But anyway…. Oscar winner Sean Penn may star in a movie about the notorious My Lai massacre during the Vietnam... »
HBO enlists Marines for ‘Pacific’
First I’ve heard of this! If it turns out to be as good as “Band of Brothers” it should be another awesome ten hours of film. FTA: Former “24″ co-star James Badge Dale, Val Lauren and Joe Mazzello will play the three Marines at the center of the 10-hour saga, according to The Hollywood Reporter.... »
Review of Sands of Iwo Jima/Flying Tigers DVD
Monsters and Critics reviews the recent double feature DVD release of Sands of Iwo Jima/Flying Tigers…. Sands of Iwo Jima shows the Duke in one of his best wartime performance and actually has the best looking print of the reissues but that has to do with it being restored for itâs original release. The... »
“Saving Private Ryan” Voted Best War Film
The readers of The American Legion Magazine voted “Saving Private Ryan” as the best war movie of all time, although with only 11% of the vote. That’s OK, its at the top of my list. “The movie depicts the realism of war by showing the bravery, fear, cowardice and horror of it all,”... »
Memorial Day Movies from Fox Movie Channel
Fox Movie Channel pays tribute this Memorial Day also, with a schedule of some classic but lesser-known films (times probably Eastern? site doesn’t say…): 6:00am – Halls of Montezuma (1951) 8:00am – To The Shores of Tripoli (1942) 10:00am – The Sand Pebbles (1966) 1:00pm – The Left Hand of God (1955) 2:30pm – Four Jills in a Jeep... »
