Feature Films

'Jayne Mansfield's Car': Hollywood Movie Set in 1969 With a Vietnam War Theme

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…

Read More »

'Ghost Money' Film in Production

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…

Read More »

The Vietnam War and 'Seven Psychopaths'

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…

Read More »

'China Gate' on DVD

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…

Read More »

Love & Honor: A Vietnam War Story That Bombs

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…

Read More »

Share Your Thoughts on ‘Go Tell the Spartans’

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…

Read More »

Student Looking for Vietnam Vets for War Film Paper

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…

Read More »

FMJ in New Blu-ray Two-Disc DVD

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…

Read More »

Bobbie Ann Mason on 'In Country'

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…

Read More »

Oliver Stone's New Film: A Hit

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…

Read More »