Category Archives: DVD Reviews

War Movie Mondays: ‘Red Dawn’

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Red Dawn is the ultimate “what if” Cold War movie. Set some time in the mid alternate 1980’s, Red Dawn depicts a world which has fast been assimilated into the sphere of Soviet influence. After NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) … Continue reading →

Posted in 20th Century Fox, Cult Cinema, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, MGM, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Ben Johnson, Brad Savage, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Doug Toby, DVD, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey, John Milius, Kevin Reynolds, Lea Thompson, MGM, Neflix, Patrick Swayze, Powers Boothe, Ron O' Neal, War | 1 Comment

War Movie Mondays: ‘Full Metal Jacket’

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

1987’s Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick’s riveting classic about U.S. Marines who survive the brutality of basic training only to be caught up in the horrific 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The film is based on Gustav … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Paths of Glory’

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Paths of Glory (1957) is one of the first masterpieces from acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick. It was loosely based on a rather obscure novel by Humphrey Cobb who published the story in 1935 about an actual group of French soldiers … Continue reading →

Posted in Classics, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, MGM, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Adolphe Menjou, DVD, George Macready, Joe Turkel, Kirk Douglas, MGM/UA, Netflix, Ralph Meeker, Richard Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Carey, War, Wayne Morris, World War I | 3 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ‘The Dirty Dozen’

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick goes behind the lines of World War II France with the 1967 release of Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen. The film stars the legendary Lee Marvin as Major John Reisman, an American OSS (pre C.I.A.) operative chosen … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘MAS*H’

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1970 comedy classic M*A*S*H, from acclaimed director Robert Altman. M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was adapted by screen writer Ring Lardner, Jr. and based on the hit novel from Richard Hooker about three military surgeons … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Cross of Iron’

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is legendary filmmaker and pioneer of balletic death scenes Sam Peckinpah’s 1977 production of Cross of Iron. The film stars James Coburn (in one of his finest performances, and as one of Peckinpah’s go-to-actors) as Sgt. Rolf Steiner, … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Longest Day’

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

In celebration of the Normandy D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, this week’s review is the 1962 “Grandaddy of all war movies” The Longest Day. Legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck and directors Ken Annakin (British scenes), Andrew Marton (American scenes), Bernhard … Continue reading →

Posted in 20th Century Fox, Blu-Ray, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged 20th Century Fox, Blu-Ray, Curt Jurgens, DVD, Eddie Albert, Gert Frobe, Henry Fonda, Jeff Hunter, John Wayne, Mel Ferrer, Paul Anka, Red Buttons, Richard Beymer, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Roddy McDowall, Sean Connery | 3 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ‘Where Eagles Dare’

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

1986’s Where Eagles Dare is a World War II spy/action film which is based on Alistair MacLean’s novel about a group of allied commandos who must break into an impregnable German fortress in the Bavarian Alps and rescue an American … Continue reading →