“Most importantly, the film tells the story not from a journalistic perspective, but from the mouths of the Israeli soldiers who were directly involved in the battle of Tantura, seven of whom openl...
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Film Review: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek is an American mystery and thriller film written and directed by Henry Dunham. The film begins with the main character, Gannon, a reclusive ex-cop played by J...
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Come and See is a 1985 Soviet war drama, which takes place in the rural countryside of Nazi-occupied Belarus in 1943. The film follows a teenaged boy named Florya, who we’re introduced to as ...
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Movie Review Monday: The Promise
The Promise is a 2016 film available on Netflix depicting the Armenian Genocide from the victims’ point of view. I felt this film would be a relevant watch for today, given Turkey’s increasingly a...
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Even though we are a year into our two-week lockdown and I am scraping the bottom of the streaming barrel, I am still leery of war films of the Netflix type and I go out of my way to avoid them. N...
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I have a love-hate relationship with war movies, and I think it’s safe to say most of us do. David Rose aka Mr. Blonde’s last piece on authenticity pretty much spells out why, so I won’t rehash the...
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“I’ve seen those hush hush looks you give, when you’re talking to him.”-The Spill Canvas I just finally got around to seeing the movie 13 Hours last weekend. It was quite the spectacle. I can’t say...
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Collateral Damage: The Typecasting and Self Destruction of the American Veteran
“One love, one house” -Slaves 22 Veterans of the armed forces of the United States kill themselves every day. Every day. This isn’t open to interpretation. This doesn’t have a left/right wing spin ...
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