September 18, 2013
The new Hollywood film, Jayne Mansfield's Car, has an all-star cast including Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton (who also co-wrote and directed the movie), and Kevin Bacon. It's set in 1969 in…
September 3, 2013
Larry Johnson, who served as an Army Special Services entertainment specialist producing shows to entertain the troops in Vietnam in 1972, is putting together a feature film called Ghost Money. The movie will tell the story of…
July 14, 2013
The strange 2012 film, Seven Psychopaths , has recently been released on video. The high concept of this hyper-violent very dark comedy is that a movie screenwriter, played by the magnetic Irish actor Colin Farrell…
April 18, 2013
Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) is best known for his three war films: Steel Helmet (1951), one of the first Hollywood movies about the Korean War; China Gate (1957), one of the first dealing with the…
March 27, 2013
The initial reviews of Love & Honor--- a new Hollywood movie staring Liam Hemsworth of The Hunger Games about two Vietnam War infantrymen who manage to come home to Michigan in the middle of their tour in…
March 14, 2013
William Cummings, a Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida, has just created what he calls a "digital and public history project" dealing with the highly regarded 1978 Vietnam War…
February 15, 2013
Gian Verderame, a student at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey, is working on a thesis titled "The Vietnam Film: How Hollywood Shapes Our Perception of the Vietnam War. " "The films that I will be…
August 14, 2012
The latest home video version of Full Metal Jacket , the iconic, bombastic 1987 Stanley Kubrick Vietnam War film, is a two-disc 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray (Warner Home Video, 117 minutes, $34.99), which was released…
July 17, 2012
You can read a compelling new interview with the author Bobbie Ann Mason on the Haunting Legacy Facebook page run by that book's co-author Deborah Kalb. In the interview Mason---who received the VVA…
July 7, 2012
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Taylor Kitsch & Aaron Johnson as American drug dealers in 'Savages'"] [/caption] Oliver Stone's new movie, "Savages, " a bombastic tale about the present-day drug trade between Mexico and the United…