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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

I wanted to highlight a recent comment on this site from Bill (thanks for writing in…). “One of the best movies about World War 11 was “The Best Years of our Lives (1946). As a Veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968, and 1969 to 1970 it said it […]

Air Force (1943)

During the Memorial day weekend here in the US, TMC broadcast three days worth of WW2 movies. There were a few I’d read about in other places but never had seen, among them Air Force (1943). The movie begins with a B-17 crew flying its plane (the Mary Jane) to Hawaii on Dec 6, 1941. […]

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

So I finally got to see Miracle at St. Anna, the recent release by Spike Lee.  I read the previous reviews and put this one on the old “back burner.”  I’m not sure why I bought into that negative review hype, but I did. The movie, while not great, is pretty darn good.  Lee knows […]

The Frogmen (1951)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a youtube post (so here goes). Just the other day, I was surfing through channels and stopped on AMC (American Movie Channel here in the US). There was Richard Widmark barking at Dana Andrews. “Cool,” I thought. “I haven’t seen this one.” The story follows some predictable plot […]

Review: Defiance

I’ve read a few reviews on Defiance, and most describe it on one hand as overly sentimental in parts, but in others, spot on in terms of story-telling and action. This review from the LA Times embraces these dual elements. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-defiance31-2008dec31,0,4587589.story Looks like I need to get to the movies.

Review: Valkyrie

The reviews on Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie are in and most are positive. The US release is set for DEC 25. Holiday best to all…

More on Tom Cruise and Valkyrie

Just came across the poster for TC’s Valkyrie online this evening.  This movie holds some interest for me as I recently saw a Discovery channel (in the US) on the bombing.  Basically the producers of the show recreated the bombings a few different ways in an effort to understand how the placement of the briefcase […]

Tom Cruise and Valkyrie

So Tom Cruise is in a WWII flick, as you may have heard/read. Good for him. The previews are starting to filter onto American cable TV stations in preparation for a late DEC 08 release. Brian Singer is the director (X-Man, Superman Returns). A DVD-style feature is here. More to come on this.

Miracle at St. Anna (review)

Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna opens today, Friday, here in the US. Roger Ebert’s review is here via the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert argues that Lee’s statue as an artist led to the inclusion of scenes that probably should have been omitted for clarity. Yet at the end, he says this: And “Miracle at St. […]

More on Miracle at St. Anna

The good folks over at CinemaBlend have four clips of the movie. Check here for details. The IMDB link is here. The wikipedia page, complete with production notes, is here.