It’s 1944 and the Negro is still regarded as an unintelligent man, incapable of fighting in America’s wars due to cowardice and the inability to make intelligent decisions. This old, racist denouncement – made to fuel segregation, came from the 20′s and was still being followed by the United States military in World War II. Red Tails is...

What happens when you mix a shaky camera with military conspiracy themes and horrible close-in action scenes? You get Green Zone, a movie set in Iraq starring Matt Damon – which is ironic since it looks very much like every other movie he has starred in the last 5 years. Maybe it’s the horribly shot action scenes, or it’s the overly intense thing he does...

Director John Woo’s Red Cliff is a dramatically poetic movie based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms a historical novel written by Luo Guonzhang. If you aren’t familiar with the Three Kingdoms story – it chronicles the ambitions of three men, love and the wonderful Generals that followed their lead. The three men are Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and Cao Cao....

Brothers is the 2nd War themed movie of 2009 to emphasize the human psyche over guts and glory. Where Mel Gibson’s We Were Soldiers faltered at bringing home the sense of loss and devastation that the wives and mothers endure during wartime, Jim Sheridan nails it by keeping it personal in this film. There are no glorious shootouts, or supermen taking out...

It starts out in the beautiful fields of a French landscape, with the usage of a gritty type of film and natural sounds. To begin a movie like this was reminiscent of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and the flashback to Maximus and his family within the fields prior to his capture, breaking and enslavement. The inevitable calm before the storm. Although I knew...

Beyond war movie and beyond another critically acclaimed movie, The Hurt Locker is the living definition of thriller. Rare is it that I find a movie that has me breathing unevenly whilst gripping my seat wondering what could happen next. The direction is simple but brilliant in it’s own right, the acting is compelling and the reality of the so-called...