Category Archives: DVD Reviews

War Movie Mondays: ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Letters from Iwo Jima was Clint Eastwood’s follow up to Flags of Our Fathers as told through the Japanese defender’s perspective. Ken Watanabe stars as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, who was the man responsible for defending Iwo Jima from the American … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Flags of Our Fathers’

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is Clint Eastwood’s World War II masterpiece Flags of Our Fathers that depicts the famous flag raising on Mt. Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. The film stars Ryan Phillippe (Navy Corpman 2nd class John … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?’

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the classic Blake Edwards 1966 comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? which stars legendary comedian Dick Shawn of The Producers (Captain Lionel Cash), James Coburn Cross of Iron (Lt. Christian), Aldo Ray Men … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Anzio!’

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick comes to us from the Italian front, a rigorous and often overlooked campaign of ETO during World War II. Robert Mitchum stars as a war correspondent (Dick Ennis) (loosely based on famed correspondent Ernie Pyle) in the … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Enemy Below’

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the World War II submarine action thriller The Enemy Below (1957) directed by Dick Powell and stars Robert Mitchum (Cpt. Murrell) Kurt Jurgens (Cpt. von Stolberg), Theodore Bikel (‘Heinie’ Schwaffer), Russell Collins (Doc), and Al Hedison, (Lt. … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Das Boot’

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 masterpiece Das Boot (The Boat) which tells the story of a German U-boat crew and their amazing two month ordeal while on patrol in the North Atlantic in the fall of 1941. The … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Memphis Belle’

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is another salute to our WW II flyboys in Michael Caton-Jones’s Memphis Belle (1990).  The film stars Matthew Modine (Captain Dennis Dearborn, Pilot), Tate Donovan (1st Lt. Luke Sinclair, Co-Pilot), D.B. Sweeney, (Lt. Phil Lowenthal, Navigator), Billy … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ’12 O’Clock High’

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick salutes the valiant fliers of United States Army Air Corp in the 1949 release of director Henry King’s 12 O’Clock High. The film stars Gregory Peck (Brig. Gen. Frank Savage), Hugh Marlowe (Lt. Col. Ben Gately), Gary … Continue reading →

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