After a slew of Vietnam movies exploding with blood and guts, “Jarhead” slows the hard-hitting action down and opens a doorway to a different aspect of war.Based on the best-selling 2003 memoir by ...

“Welcome to the Suck.” That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, Jarhead, but it also neatly summed up my opinion of the book. I bought the audio version after two ...

There’s plenty of heavy metal in “Jarhead” – tanks, guns, grenades, bullets and bombers – but just as important is the heavy meta: Self-awareness.Without the allusions and references, “Jarhead” would ...

Cecelia MacDonald is a recent gradute of York University's Cinema and Media Studies program with an ephasis on screenwriting and genre-studies. They are based out of Toronto, working on small film ...

The movie Jarhead (Universal) is unusually faithful to Anthony Swofford’s memoir of life in Marine Corps during the first Gulf War—which isn’t entirely a good thing. It’s a terrific book, but it needs ...

“I love this job. I thank God for every day he gives me in the Corps. Hoorah,” says an oil-soaked Jamie Foxx in Sam Mendes’ new epic war film “Jarhead.” To see this scene in all of its unfettered ...

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He shattered the facade of U.S. suburbia, peered into the soul of a Chicago hitman and in his new movie, “Jarhead,” British director Sam Mendes is again examining an American subject -- U.S. Marines ...

Toward the end of “Jarhead,” Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir about the 1991 Gulf War, the author argues that those who “have never fought” have no right to praise the purity of war and warriors. “These ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The opening scenes of Sam Mendes’s deadpan thinkpiece “Jarhead” play like a trip through classic ...