Category: War

Platoon (1986) – Review

I can’t speak for anybody else, but in my mind, common wisdom decrees that there is an unholy trinity of quintessential Vietnam movies that’s made

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Strike Commando 2 (1988) – Review

We’ve encountered Bruno Mattei on this page before, but for those unfamiliar with possibly Italian cinema’s most blatant rip off artist, here’s a quick run

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Strike Commando (1987) – Review

Many, many years ago, back in the age of the reassuring clunkiness of the VCR, I owned an ex-rental copy of Michele Soavi’s poetically camp,

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Review

“I have to say, I wasnt expecting to be invited back.” Confesses a slightly more humbled version of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the fighter pilot blessed/cursed

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‘Devotion’ – Teaser Trailer

Sony Pictures have released the trailer for ‘Devotion’. Devotion, an aerial war epic based on the bestselling book of the same name, tells the harrowing

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The Delta Force (1986) – Review

Say what you will about First Blood Part II’s bombastic attempts at catharsis in the wake of the Vietnam war, at least it never contained

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Tears Of The Sun (2003) – Review

Whenever Hollywood decides to poke its nose into actual conflicts that rage around the globe, things can often get a little awkward. Sometimes we get

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Top Gun (1986) – Review

Anyone familiar with the comedy stylings of stoney faced, stand-up Rich Hall must be familiar with his bit about how Tom Cruise movies are all

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Too Late The Hero (1970) – Review

If you were feeling in a highly generalizing kind of mood you could argue that there’s usually only two types of Second World War movie

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Between Heaven And Hell (1956) – Review

Whether you’ve heard of him or not, Richard Fleischer had pretty much done it all and chances are you’ve experienced part of his robust filmography

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Three Kings (1999) – Review

By 1999, movies involving the Persian Gulf war were usually ramrod straight dramas that treated the still-fresh struggle against Saddam Hussein with a grave respect

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Inglorious Basterds (2009) – Review

After Tarantino ditched the suited, gangster goings on of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Bell for the super stylized shenanigans of the Kill Bill

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The Inglorious Bastards (1978) – Review

Not to be confused with Quentin Tarantino’s masterful slice of wartime lunacy (although he did steal and misspell the title as a tribute to this

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The King’s Man (2021) – Review

While I consider the first movie a work of subversive genius (yes, even the joke about anal), was anyone really clamouring for a Kingsman prequel

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‘Munich – The Edge Of War’ – Official Trailer

Netflix have released the trailer for ‘Munich – The Edge Of War’. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Harris. It is Autumn 1938 and

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Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) – Review

The sub-genre (pun not intended) of the submarine based war movie seems to only have a handful of tropes. Watch a couple in a row

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Invisible Agent (1942) – Review

Much like the various invisible men and women of the H.G. Wells inspired series of films, once 1940’s The Invisible Woman took the franchise into

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‘Operation Mincemeat’ – Official Trailer

Warner Bros. have released the trailer for ‘Operation Mincemeat’. It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe and plan an

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Bullet In The Head (1990) – Review

Those of you familiar with the Hong Kong output of action maestro John Woo – before he moved to the States and gave us Broken

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Cross Of Iron (1977) – Review

What with lunatic/maverick filmmaker Sam Peckenpah’s proclivity for fashioning incredibly brutal adventures featuring unfeasibly grizzled men trying to find a sliver of decency in horrific

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