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Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket was a standout in the rush of Vietnam movies that arrived on the big screen in the late 80s. While the second half of the film takes place in Vietnam, it's the film's boot camp-set first half, with stunning performances from Vincent D'Onofrio and Lee Ermey, as a recruit and drill instructor,...
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Director Stanley Kubrick's 1957 film Paths Of Glory stars Kirk Douglas as ... a colonel in the French military? Don't stress, ole Spartacus doesn't even bother feigning a French accent. Remember, it's Stanley Kubrick at the helm; what the film lacks in verbal verisimilitude it more than makes up for in horrifically realistic World War I battle...
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Seventy-four years after D-Day, revisit the Allied landings of June 6, 1944 via the harrowing opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's 1998 epic that won him an Academy Award for Best Director. Starring Tom Hanks as well as Matt Damon as the titular character.
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Nothing spurs on a decision to watch a movie like knowing that they're disappearing from your favorite service, amirite? When I learned that Born On The Fourth Of July was expiring from HBO on March 31, 2018, I pushed all of my other streaming obligations aside and queued up the film that won Oliver Stone the Best Director award at the 1990...
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Allied was a certifiable flop when it was released theatrically back in November 2016, earning just $119MM in worldwide box office against a budget of $85 million. Now that it's available to stream as part of your Amazon Prime and/or Hulu streaming subscription plans, though, it's time to reevaluate this WWII drama. Listen, Allied is by no means a...
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Dunkirk made $525 million in worldwide box office, got nominated for 8 Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography), yet somehow is still flying completely under the radar in this year's Best Picture race. What it lacks in Oscar buzz, though, it more than makes up for in quality. Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker...
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You can thank Joel Schumacher for giving Colin Farrell his first big break stateside in this film that follows a band of army recruits during their final stages of training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, before they ship off to Vietnam. What’s unique about this war drama is that our boys never leave the U.S., but Schumacher and DP Matthew Libatique...
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Remember Red Dawn, the 1984 film which imagined what would happen if Communists parachuted into Colorado and started killing everyone in sight? Well, this film is sort of like that, except swap in a secessionist paramilitary force for Communists and Brooklyn for Colorado. The frenetic first 45 minutes of this film are filled with chaos,...
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Band of Brothers, HBO’s 125 million dollar 10-episode mini-series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, is required viewing for WWII history buffs… and basically everyone else. It is impossible not to be in awe of the heroes of “Easy” Company who fought their way from Normandy to Hitler’s Berchtesgaden home in the Alps in less than a...
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