• August 31, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Two very pretty young people meet cute on a gorgeous beach in a charming beach town in the Carolinas. Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) has flaxen hair and huge eyes and...

• July 17, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Drama, War

Based on a book by Bill O’Reilly (yes, THAT Bill O’Reilly), Killing Lincoln focuses on the event that has been a pop culture obsession since 1865, and I’m not...

• February 5, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, War

I love the Revolutionary War. It has all the tragedy, glamour, and pomp, leaving none for the other wars. In fifth grade, my best friend and I made armies...

• January 26, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

The Minivers are your average middle-class family in England. That is, the classic Hollywood-type of “middle class”, where Mother is gorgeous and looks like Greer Garson, Father smokes a...

• January 17, 2013
• At Home, War

The Way Back is a fascinating epic, and is even more amazing as it is inspired by a true story. A handful of prisoners escaped from a Soviet gulag...

• December 15, 2012
• At Home, Drama, War

Kaja (hottie Edgar Martinez-look-alike Nebojsa Glogovac) is a burned-out basketball star. He no longer plays, his wife is estranged, and their 5-year-old kid has stopped talking as a result...

• November 28, 2012
• At Home, Documentary, War

There are many enduring images of the Civil War–the siege of Vicksburg, Sherman’s burning of Atlanta and his destructive march to the sea, the sickness and starvation, the pillaging...

• November 14, 2012
• Action, At Home, War

In the updated version of Red Dawn, it is the North Koreans invading instead of a Soviet-led contingent, and once again, the story revolves around a group of kids...

• September 26, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Television, War

In a gentleman’s war, one or the more baffling etiquettes is that soldiers are required to offer aid an assistance to the victims that they themselves tried to kill....

• September 26, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Television, War

If you are a fan of John Jakes, old school TV miniseries, Revolution Era America, or TV stars of the ’70s and ’80s, The Kent Chronicles are going to...

• September 23, 2012
• At Home, Drama, War

Revisiting Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, I found that my response to the film was pretty much the same as my initial impression: It is one part great movie,...

• March 23, 2011
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, War

Based on the play Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies introduces various characters that are destined to collide in a way that would befit a Greek tragedy. In the present...