Checked out the latest post 9/11 war on terror / Afghanistan flick 12 Strong over the weekend. This is the apparently true accounting of the soldiers sent into Afghanistan to help the Northern Alliance fight the Taliban shortly after 9/11 … Continue reading
Caught a preview showing of the new Christopher Nolan WW2 movie Dunkirk. This will certainly be an unpopular opinion among amateur and pro reviewers, but I did not love this movie. It’s not a terrible movie and I can offer … Continue reading
Checked out the film Megan Leavey, the true story of a US marine and her working military dog sent to Iraq to sniff out bombs and her state-side attempt to adopt the animal. It is a new release with fairly … Continue reading
Star Wars: Rogue One (or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or just Rogue One as the movie calls itself) is a pretty great movie and possibly an even better Star Wars movie. If the first half was as strong … Continue reading
Went to see the new Brad Pitt WW2 spy flick Allied over the weekend. This is the new flick by Robert Zemeckis though it doesn’t really feel like it. This is the dude who directed Back to the Future, The … Continue reading
Also saw Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the new war/coming home movie from Ang Lee. I highly recommend doing what everyone else did and not see this movie (it came in 13th place in its opening weekend, making under one … Continue reading
Hacksaw Ridge is the new movie by the director of Braveheart and Passion of the Christ. Shhhh… that means Mel Gibson who is still, in some respects, in Hollywood Jail (though just getting this movie released theatrically means maybe not … Continue reading
Also checked out The Birth of a Nation, the new film about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831. Many people may recognize the title of the movie as that of the rightfully infamous DW Griffith film from 1919… one of … Continue reading
Watched the film (On Demand) USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (subtitle unnecessary) which is the true story of the Indianapolis, which delivered the Hiroshima bomb to the staging island before returning to the US, getting torpedoed and sunk by a … Continue reading
Went to see the new Miles Teller/Jonah Hill arms dealer movie War Dogs. This is the apparently true story of a couple out-of-their-depths 20 somethings who become arms merchants for the US military during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Apparently … Continue reading