The dirty secret about combat memoirs isn’t that war is senseless or that heroes are often terrified or that the battlefield can turn even good men into dehumanized monsters or that everyone is bored ...
Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins his journey into the Marine Corps. #jakegyllenhaal #jarhead #movieclip Get your ...
On June 7, more than 10 years after the theatrical debut of “Jarhead,” the critically acclaimed biographical war drama about a young Marine sniper (Jake Gyllenhaal) deployed to Iraq during Desert ...
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 ...
It was my first time. The experience was not as sexy as the first R-rated movie I snuck into (Purple Rain) or as violent and arty as the last (Full Metal Jacket), nor as trippy as the first time I did ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his best-selling memoir, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” Anthony Swofford writes a beautifully astute passage about his ...
Jarhead 3: The Siege (out now on Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and Digital HD) is not really a sequel to the 2005 prestige picture Jarhead. It's not really even a sequel to 2014's Jarhead 2: Field of Fire ...
“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 ...
The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is based ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Oscar night in April 1979 marked a shift of key for the Hollywood war film. Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, about a Russian Orthodox ...
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