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 ...
While Jake Gyllenhaal slogs through Iraq’s burning oil fields in the new Gulf War film “Jarhead,” a helicopter flies overhead blasting The Doors’ “Break On Through.” Gyllenhaal yells up at the chopper ...
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 ...
A Marine unit stationed in the hostile province of Helmand Afghanistan wilderness faces a harrowing mission as they try to help a fugitive woman reach safety from the Taliban in JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...