Category Archives: Editorial

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: ‘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: ‘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 →

Posted in Drama, DVD, Editorial, HBO, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays, Warner Bros | Tagged Dan Futterman, Devon Gummersall, DVD, Dwight Yoakam, Dylan Bruno, Frank Whaley, John Irvin, Martin Donovan, Netflix, Ron Eldard, Steven Petrarca, Timothy Olyphant, Zak Orth | Comments Off

Review: ‘The Nutcracker in 3D’

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Lon Harris

There have been worse movies than The Nutcracker in 3D. Certainly films made with less ambition, with less skilled actors and more modest sets and effects budgets. But it’s genuinely challenging to recall a more wrong-headed film than Andrei Konchalovsky’s … Continue reading →

Posted in 3-D, Action, Classics, Editorial, Editorial and Opinion, Fantasy, Foreign Films, Kids, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi | Tagged 3D, Albert Einstein, Andrei Konchalovsky, Elle Fanning, John Turturro, Nathan Lane, Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker 3D | 2 Comments

Exclusive: Director Andrei Konchalovsky Talks ‘Nutcracker 3D’ and the Classiness of ‘Tango and Cash’

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Lon Harris

So I’m standing next to director Andrei Konchalovsky in a walk-in freezer known as the “VodBox,” dedicated to housing dozens of high-end vodkas. We’re all wearing fur coats and somewhat-ridiculous-even-in-frigid-temperatures fur hats. We’re ostensibly here to discuss Konchalovsky’s latest film, … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Classics, Comedy, Editorial, Editorial and Opinion, Exclusive, Interviews, Kids, Movies | Tagged Andrei Konchalovsky, Nutcracker 3D, Tango and Cash | 1 Comment

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: ‘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 →