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,... »

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when they pitched this movie.  "What? A cast of *two*? With very little dialog? And only one of them speaks English and we won't subtitle the other? What?!" I'm really shocked this film made it out the door at all.  But I'm... »

Two words.  Skip it!  Wait for the 1951 version of this starring Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin to come around on the tube, or something.  Just avoid this at all costs. Stephen Crane's classic novel, "The Red Badge of Courage", about a boy who becomes a man through the trials of his experience in... »

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... »

It's not often that you see one of the highest ranking officers of a despicable and evil empire celebrated in such a overwhelmingly positive light.  The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel does just that.  It highlights the last days of German (but questionably Nazi) Field Marhsal Erwin Rommel, who is widely thought of... »

Wow.  Talk about a movie that was ahead of its time in its message.  Well, mostly anyway.  Halls of Montezuma follows the journey of a squad of US Marines as they storm an anonymous Japanese held island in the Pacific during WWII.  They are then tasked with locating a Japanese rocket emplacement before the... »

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... »

Hm.  Its taken me a while to write this.  I've really had to think about what I was going to put here after seeing Clint Eastwood's "sequel" to Flags of Our Fathers (WMB review here...) The story of "Letters From Iwo Jima" is the Japanese perspective of the invasion of Iwo Jima, which was... »

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... »

There are some movies that just surprise the heck out of you. You go in thinking, "Oooohhhh brother. This is going to suck!" And then it doesn't! "Keep Your Powder Dry" surprised the dickens out of me. The story of three very different women who join up with the WACs in 1945, it turns... »

1957's The Bridge on the River Kwai is a classic by any definition of the word.  Based on the book "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boule, it tells the compelling story of a band of British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in Thailand during WWII, and how they overcome their... »

And then there was... Grenada?  Lost in the midst of "the big ones" was this tiny little intervention in the early 1980's.  1986's Heartbreak Ridge ends up focusing on that particular conflict in the end, but takes us through one platoon's journey from slackerdom to full-out Marines. Seasoned veteran of Korea and Vietnam, Gunnery... »

Two words: Um. Yeah. Two more words: Don't bother. Look, I'm all for classic war movies, and Wake Island just ain't one of 'em. Now, I understand the need for a little artistic license, especially in the name of much-needed (and wanted) wartime propaganda flicks. I'm not against that. But there's a line. First... »