Category Archives: DVD

War Movie Mondays: ‘When Trumpets Fade’

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

John Irvin’s (Hamburger Hill & The Dogs of War) 1998 HBO film When Trumpets Fade is an intense, brutally honest  look at front line combat at the closing end of World War II. As the German Army is in full … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Crispin Glover’s George McFly Screen Tests Revealed

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Chris Ullrich

Remember when we brought you video of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in the never before seen footage from his short lived stint in Back to the Future? Well. we’ve got more interesting tidbits from that film to share with … Continue reading →

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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 →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Apocalypse Now’

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick takes us back into the heart of darkness with Francis Ford Coppola’s riveting Vietnam classic Apocalypse Now (1979). The film was written by Coppola and John Milius, along with brilliant narration written by Michael Herr. The movie … Continue reading →

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