Good intentions and handsome filmmaking are the hallmarks of this grim slavery/civil war epic. Lincoln has issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves of the the rebelling South. Will Smith plays real-life escaped slave Peter who must survive first his … Continue reading
I had no idea, going in, that Devotion was a film based on the Korean war… looking at the poster, I figured WWII so that was a nice surprise for a fairly nice movie. And if I spent a few … Continue reading
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 edition) is one of the best anti war movies based on one of the best anti war books. It’s a grueling slog in the way World War I warfare was a grueling slog. … Continue reading
The Greatest Beer Run Ever tells the apparently true story (details leave me dubious) about a local neighborhood fella who has friends fighting (and dying) in Vietnam. It’s 1967 and the antiwar movement is dividing families so he decides to … Continue reading
The logline for this film on a rental streaming service promised Nazi Werewolves so I watched it hoping for a mashup of Dog Soldiers and Overlord. But don’t you believe their lies (at least Letterboxd’s description is honest). This is … Continue reading
Top Gun: Maverick is a pretty terrific film. Let’s just start with that. And, yeah, there’s no doubt some of that old nostalgia in that opinion. And, even though Top Gun is far from my favorite 80’s flick, I got … Continue reading
Black Crab stars Noomi Rapace as a soldier who must deliver vital but mysterious package across the frozen Swedish archipelago. It seems a war has been raging for years, devastating the country and the populace. With a small squad, Rapace … Continue reading
Outside the Wire is a serviceable enough action/war movie that, in between firefights, wants to say something about war. Whether it accomplishes that in its overly long runtime is debatable. Set in the near future, America is running peacekeeper operations … Continue reading
The Tom Hanks movie Greyhound is a WW2 naval warfare movie that was going to release theatrically until the usual COVID story hit. It’s not the first such movie to release streaming but it is clearly one of the biggest, … Continue reading
Watched Da 5 Bloods on Nettfix… this is the new Spike Lee flick that went directly to streaming (which makes it, at least for this year, eligible for Academy Award nominations). This flick is a witch’s brew of Spike Lee’s … Continue reading