There are times when you just have to throw all the analysis and whatnot right out the window, and just say, “DAMN! That was a cool movie!” Time Slip (aka G.I. Samurai) is exactly the movie that time was made for. In it, Lt. Iba’s (Sonny Chiba) squad of the Japanese Self Defense Force gets... »
Well, here it is, the last one. I’m psyched. »
From landmark director John Ford comes the classic They Were Expendable, starring none other than John Wayne as Lt. “Rusty” Ryan. One of the cool things about WWII movies is that there’s just so many of them, and as such, they had to drill down and focus on particular units or what-have-you in order... »
Few names bring fear into the hearts of men as much as “Genghis Khan” or as he was known to the people he led and the lands he ravaged, “Temudgin.” In Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan, we get a spectacular, if sympathetic, look at the rise to power of one of history’s most... »
Guadalcanal Diary is just one of those pictures you know they made with good intentions. The problem is that it was just too early to be making a picture like this. 1943 saw the start of the Pacific campaign in WWII, and if they’d only known what they were up against, I’m not sure... »
I finally got around to watching all my DVR’d episodes of HBO’s Generation Kill, based on the writings of Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright about his embedding with the 1st Marine Recon Battalion in the first days of the Iraq invasion. I have to say, Generation Kill is a great look at the ins-and-outs of... »
Well, OK, this is new! In Brad Pitt’s upcoming World War II movie, he plays a vengeance-seeking Nazi hunter – and he looks the part. The first portrait of Pitt’s character, Lt. Aldo Raine, in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (yes, the misspelling is intentional), was released Monday. Clad in tough-looking fighter gear, Pitt portrays the leader... »
In yet another entry from this weeks “Books on film” theme we get a treat from our friends across the pond. The British borne The Ship That Died of Shame. From Nicholas Monsarrat’s book of the same name. In it, a retired MGB (Machine Gun Boat, took me a bit to realize what... »
In May, 1969, Airborne troops were tasked with the awful duty of taking a hill from the North Vietnamese, in a battle which would become known as “Hamburger Hill” and documented in a book by Samuel Zaffiri, and then on film in this 1987 picture. I hadn’t seen Hamburger Hill in a long, long, time. ... »
I really wish I could nail down what Flight of the Intruder is trying to be. I think the problem is it tries to be too much, and fill too many different ‘roles’ as a movie that it never really succeeds at any of them. If that makes any sense. Maybe another case of... »
I *think* this is the new Defiance trailer. Yow. Looks good in a lot of ways. Starring 007’s Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, and George McKay. IMDB lists the opening as December 12th. Synopsis (from IMDB): Three Jewish brothers (Craig, Schreiber and Bell) escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian... »
