Ever since Quentin Tarantino made the Second World War “fun” again with Inglorious Basterds, I’ve been waiting for someone to come along to deliver a
Tag: War
The Heroes Of Telemark
If you want a good, old fashioned war flick, that’s set away from the grime and gore of the trenches, there’s a few ingredients that
Midway
When filmmakers opt to make a film that covers a large aspect of a war, they invariably find themselves faced with something of a Sophie’s
Von Ryan’s Express
During its heyday, the World War II set mission movie enjoyed many an all star cast as the war was won seemingly on every conceivable
The Eagle Has Landed
World War II men on a mission movies: we all know them and we all love them (the good ones, anyway) but sometimes, aside from
Escape To Athena
When you take a good, long, hard look at that much-loved sub-genre of the war film – the men on a mission movie – there’s
The Lair
When news broke that Neil Marshall was making a long awaited return to monster movie territory, I was understandably stoked. After all, the director kicked
Pearl Harbor
To this day, “Bayologists” (the term for the nonexistent scientists I just made up who study the works of Michael Bay) still aren’t entirely sure
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
Believe it or not, despite forging a career making movies where countless special forces teams made up of the military and law enforcement wage war
Taegukgi: The Brotherhood Of War
One of the greatest legacies of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan is that not only did it infuse the war movie with a brutal new
Enemy At The Gates
By the time the millennium came around, the lavish World War II movie had made something of a full bloodied comeback thanks to high profile
Max Manus: Man Of War
What with the endless parade of World War II movies out there that’s focused on the efforts of the British or the Americans, it’s easy
The Tomorrow War
And so it was written that the wars between the streaming services would escalate and as a result, vast resources would be spent on movies
Platoon
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
Strike Commando 2
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
Strike Commando
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,
Top Gun: Maverick
“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
The Delta Force
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
Tears Of The Sun
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
Top Gun
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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