Category Archives: War Movie Mondays

War Movie Mondays: ‘The Exterminator’

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1980 release of James Glickenhaus’s ‘The Exterminator‘ which takes us from the jungles of war torn Vietnam to the urban jungle of the crime stricken and bankrupt New York City of 1980. The Film stars … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Missing in Action’

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1984 release of director Joseph Zito’s Missing in Action which was the first installment of the franchise. Chuck Norris stars for the first time as Col. James Braddock, who years earlier escaped a POW camp … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Missing in Action 2: The Beginning’

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is yet another classic from the world of Golan Globus a.k.a. Cannon Films, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) which was directed by Lance Hool and stars Chuck “White Lightning” Norris as Colonel James Braddock in … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Hanoi Hilton’

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is from the wonderful world of Cannon Pictures with the 1987 feature The Hanoi Hilton. It was directed by Lionel Chetwynd and tells the story of downed American airmen who suffered greatly at the hands of their North … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Andersonville’

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is The TNT original film Andersonville (1996) from acclaimed film maker John Frankenheimer (Seven Days in May, Against the Wall). The film stars Jarrod Emick (Pvt. Josiah Day), Frederic Forrest (Sgt. McSpadden), Ted Marcoux (Martin Blackburn) Gregory Sporleder … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Gettysburg’

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American War between the states, this week’s pick is the 1993 epic Gettysburg directed by Ronald F. Maxwell and adapted from the novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Flight of the Intruder’

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is a salute to U.S. Navy pilots during the Vietnam War with director John Milius’s (Red Dawn, The Wind and the Lion, Rough Riders) Flight of the Intruder (1991), which was based on the novel written by … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Final Countdown’

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1980 military/science fiction classic The Final Countdown directed by Don Taylor, which stars Kirk Douglas (Capt. Matt Yelland), Martin Sheen (Warren Lasky), James Farentino (Air Wing Cmdr. Richard Owen/Richard Tideman), Katherine Ross (Laurel Scott), Ron … Continue reading →

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