The Battle:Based on a book by Hal Moore and Joseph L. Galloway,We Were Soldiersfeatures Mel Gibson as Moore during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam. Like other Vietnam War films, the movie is unsparing in its depiction of warfield brutality. In one notable scene, Moore calls in Broken...
“Saving Private Ryan,” for example, is just one film that show a great war movie is about the moral complexity at its heart: not just the depiction of war but the understanding of war in all its fear, horror, blood and compulsion, its violent pointlessness and also its need, at ...
Incredibly, the film was shot in a forest in Berkshire, England, and most of the uniforms were rented from the local Army and Navy store. Despite these limitations,How Sleep the Braveis a tough, brutal little movie that gives us a window into the harsh realities of the conflict. 9.Rescue...
David S. Ward’s excellent 1995 TV movie Truman depicted that President’s weighing of the bomb’s use with one of his friends with a level of attentive seriousness, whereas Nolan only engages with the disparity between Truman and Oppenheimer in an odd scene where the scientist visits the Pre...
This unblinking depiction of the Imperial Japanese Army’s collapse in 1945 was initially greenlit by its studio, the great Daiei Film, on the misapprehension that it would be an action movie. And, in fairness, there is at least one scene of actual combat in there, if you look closely ...
With all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Casablanca, it can be easy to forget that it technically is a war movie. Set in Morocco during WWII, Casablanca is the story of Rick Blaine and his choice between fleeing selfishly with his lost love or helping in the fight against ...
I liked the way this was told a great deal. There are no heroes in this movie, only men who fight bravely but to no avail. There’s no mawkish fictional story added, just the facts and how they unfolded. Although there isn’t a lot of story per se and the movie is 90 minutes lo...
The Duellists saw Scott offering the first of many genuflections to Stanley Kubrick with a movie made under the immediate spell of Barry Lyndon (1975), but which, subtly and simultaneously, carved out his own niche with very different storytelling rhythms, setting the scene for Scott’s long,...
He went as far to say that this movie "sucked" and he had no confidence in director Philip G. Atwell. Even halfway into filming, he knew that it would receive mediocre ratings and not make profit. Goofs Everyone in the movie pronounces the word "yakuza" as "yah-KOOZ-uh" with the ...
The Movie Partnership have released ROGUE WARFARE the first installment of the ROGUE WARFARE TRILOGY across Digital Download platforms, The second and third instalments, ROGU