Category Archives: DVD Reviews

War Movie Mondays: ‘A Midnight Clear’

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s Christmas war pick is the 1992 release of Keith Gordon’s A Midnight Clear which was adapted from the novel by William Wharton. The film stars Ethan Hawke (Sgt. Will Knott), Peter Berg (Pvt. Bud Miller), Kevin Dillon (Cpl. … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Columbia Pictures, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Film Festivals, Netflix, Sundance, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke, Frank Whaley, Gary Sinise, John C. McGinley, Keith Gordon, Kevin Dillon, Larry Joshua, Peter Berg, William Wharton | Comments Off

War Movie Mondays: ‘Battleground’

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Seasons greetings to all you loyal War Movie Monday fans out there in The Flickcast universe. In keeping with the theme of war films which happen around the holidays, I am proud to present this week’s pick, the 1949 MGM … Continue reading →

Posted in Classics, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, MGM, Netflix, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays, Warner Bros | Tagged Don Taylor, Douglas Fowley, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Jerome Courtland, John Hodiak, Marshall Thompson, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Pirosh, Van Johnson, William Wellman | 1 Comment

War Movie Mondays: ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Greetings War Movie Monday fans. This week’s pick is the 1970 20th Century Fox classic Tora! Tora! Tora! which depicts the attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7, 1941 as seen through the eyes of both the American and … Continue reading →

Posted in 20th Century Fox, Academy Awards, Classics, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, DVD, E.G. Marshall, George Macready, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, Kinji Fukasaku, Martin Balsam, Netflix, Richard Fleischer, Soh Yamamura, Toshio Masuda | Comments Off

War Movie Mondays: ‘Cromwell’

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1970 British epic Cromwell which stars veteran actor Richard Harris as the man who led Parliamentary forces to victory during The English Civil War. The film also stars Sir Alec Guinness (King Charles I), Robert … Continue reading →

Posted in Biopic, Classics, Columbia Pictures, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Netflix, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Alec Guinness, Columbia Pictures, Ken Hughes, Michael Jayston, Netflix, Nigel Stock, Patrick Wymark, Richard Harris, Robert Morley, Timothy Dalton | 1 Comment

War Movie Mondays: ‘Lion of the Desert’

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is from the forgotten pages of colonial history which deals with the Italian colonization of Libya before WWII. Anthony Quinn stars as famed guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar in Moustapha Akkad’s Lion of the Desert (1981) which was … Continue reading →

Posted in Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Starz, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Anchor Bay Entertainment, Anthony Quinn, DVD, Maurice Jarre, Moustapha Akkad, Netflix, Oliver Reed, Raf Vallone, Rod Steiger, Starz | 1 Comment

War Movie Mondays: ’1941′

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1979 least known and only comedy from director Steven Spielberg, 1941 which stars Saturday Night Live originals Dan Aykroyd (Sgt. Frank Tree), and the incomparable John Belushi (Capt. “Wild” Bill Kelso, U.S. Army Air Corp.) Other … Continue reading →

Posted in Academy Awards, Classics, Columbia Pictures, Comedy, Cult Cinema, DVD, DVD Reviews, Universal Pictures, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Bob Gale, Bobby Di Cicco, Christopher Lee, Columbia Pictures, Dan Aykroyd, DVD, Joe Flaherty, John Belushi, John Candy, John Milius, John Williams, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Nancy Allen, Ned Beatty, Netflix, Robert Stack, Robert Zemeckis, Slim Pickens, Steven Spielberg, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Treat Williams, Universal Pictures, Warren Oates | 8 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb’

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) is the ultimate black comedy, war movie which pokes fun at the absurdity of nuclear war and those responsible for escalating tensions throughout world during the Cold War. The film stars the great Peter Sellers … Continue reading →

Posted in Blu-Ray, Classics, Columbia Pictures, Comedy, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Netflix, Novels, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Peter Bull, Peter George, Peter Sellers, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Terry Southern | 6 Comments

DVD Review: ‘The Robocop Trilogy’ On Blu-ray

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Matt Raub

In a time when it sounds like a good idea to studio executives to rerelease classic films in 3D, it’s nice to see a simple gesture done to a classic set of films like upgrading them to 1080p that really … Continue reading →