• September 16, 2017
• At Home, Documentary, War

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was of a generation of American kids that was not taught about Vietnam. Sure, some kids had fathers that fought or...

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

First Blood has to be one of the most distressing movies ever made. Things go badly for John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) from the very first scene, and it only...

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

Sooo, I finally saw Rambo. It was fine. Okay, it wasn’t fine. It wasn’t fine at all. It made me mad. And I know it got decent reviews and...

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

I don’t recall ever having standards, but at some point in my young life, I must have decided that 96% action and 4% dialogue was a bad ratio for...

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

After revisiting First Blood I was chomping at the bit to get my hands on the sequel. You can imagine my horror when I got it home and the...

• April 21, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Someone needs to give Christian Bale a sandwich and some diet counseling. If this guy continues to gain and lose alarming amounts of poundage for movie roles (see also...

• 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,...

• June 21, 2002
• At Home

John Woo’s American movies have been pretty popular (Mission: Impossible 2, Face/Off), but I’ve always heard that you have to dig into the foreign film section to find his...

• November 29, 2001
• At Home, Drama, War

As bloated as Marlon Brando, Redux is a three-plus hour re-edited director’s cut of what is widely agreed to be a great film. We still have the basic plot...