It is Groundhog D-day: a study of bafflement and frustration and disillusion ... with technical panache and sensual texture of images and soun “Thank God,” says an exultant marine at the end of this ...

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 ...

The dirty secret about combat memoirs isn’t that war is senseless or that heroes are often terrified or that the battlefield can turn even good men into dehumanized monsters or that everyone is bored ...

There’s plenty of heavy metal in “Jarhead” – tanks, guns, grenades, bullets and bombers – but just as important is the heavy meta: Self-awareness.Without the allusions and references, “Jarhead” would ...

Seven-time Oscar nominee Dennis Gassner (“Blade Runner 2029,” “Jarhead”) was in Alaska recovering from back surgery when he got an interesting email. “Do not do the ‘Bond’ film,” it read. “I have a ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...