Category Archives: War

War Movie Mondays: ‘The Dogs of War’

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick pits a small group of international mercenaries sent by a British corporation to overthrow a two bit Idi Amin dictator in Sub Saharan Africa. John Irvin (Hamburger Hill, When Trumpets Fade) directs The Dogs of War (1980) … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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: ‘Fat Man and Little Boy’

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1989 drama directed by Roland Joffe Fat Man and Little Boy which were the code names given to the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan, ending the war in the Pacific during World War … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Southern Comfort’

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week is a different kind of war movie, because it’s a war movie on the home front which mirrors the actions and feelings of what the country was going through during the latter half of the Vietnam War. Southern … Continue reading →