Tag: war
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The Book
wrote The Book after finding my mother’s old paperback on my nightstand—a relic of her insistence that language could save us from silence. The poem began as a study of inheritance: how reading becomes a form of haunting. Each line traces the movement of a child carrying a book through rooms, echoing a mother’s voice…
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WAR MACHINE: THE METAL YOU CARRY
War Machine turns a soldier’s buried grief into a relentless sci‑fi gauntlet, driven by Alan Ritchson’s hardened performance and Patrick Hughes’s muscular direction. The result is a bruising, mixed‑to‑positive action film that finds its strongest footing in the bond between 81 and 7.
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Primitive War Finds Fire in the Jungle
Primitive War delivers a fierce collision of Vietnam War tension and dinosaur‑driven spectacle, anchored by Ryan Kwanten’s steady presence. The film’s blend of science, survival, and prehistoric fury creates a wild, irresistible experience.
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Valiant One: Through the Zone, One Stands
A mixed-to-positive review of Steve Barnett’s Valiant One, starring Chase Stokes as a reluctant leader navigating a crash site deep in North Korean territory. The film explores courage under pressure, the loneliness of command, and the quiet endurance of survival.
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The World Will Tremble: But Not Always for the Right Reasons
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
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Harbin: A Snowbound Requiem for Freedom and Fate
There is something about the cold—how it settles into the bones and sharpens the edges of history. *Harbin*, directed by Woo Min-ho, is a film steeped in frost and fire, a historical thriller that moves like a ghost through the corridors of time, tracing the footsteps of Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-Geun (Hyun Bin) as…
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The Six Triple Eight: A Triumph of Courage and Unity
MOVIE INFO: The Six Triple Eight is inspired by the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in WWII. Despite facing racism and sexism — and grueling working conditions — they were committed to serving their country with honor and distinction. Given an extraordinary mission and united in their determination,…
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Lee: A Powerful, Authentic Look at a Trailblazing War Photographer
MOVIE INFO: Lee, the directorial feature from award-winning Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslet). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly…
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Blitz: A Heartfelt Tale of Survival and Resilience Amidst Wartime Chaos”
MOVIE INFO: Sir Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks…
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Land of Bad: A Russell Crowe Almost Worth Droning on About
MOVIE INFO: Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing…
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The Ministry of Ungetlemanly Warfare: Black Ops with a Dash of Bond, but Not as Fun
MOVIE INFO: Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming.…
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Civil War: Getting Through the Fog of the American Split
MOVIE INFO VIA ROTTEN TOMATOES: From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. REVIEW: Civil War is a war movie where the political divisions are never defined. We never…
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Behind the photo of the boy on the rubble
The boy sits atop of the rubble of his homeHis father lies silent twelve feet belowHis infancy has fallen from that summitThe darkness chokes his gentle neckNeedles of despair push into himTheir sharpness kills his heartInside he feels all his organs shrivel His tears fertilize the moundFrom them, a black flower seedsIts delicate roots claw…
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After October 7th
He had collected remains for most of his lifebut now can’t stand the smell of grilled meatHis son marks time from that fateful date,everything before that, lost in time’s horror.His son-in-law now gags at the smell of rotten food.They work to bring the families of the dead closure,even though there is no real closure for…
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From the Sky
They built their tunnels deep into the sky.“No one, will find us here,” they thought.They watched their children playing soccer.They saw their grandmothers making bread.They knew the teen boy, so like themselves,under the olive tree, eating watermelon, writing a love letter on his phone. His beloved, not far from the checkpoint where soldiers were cocking…
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The Caine Mutiny Court Martial: Righting the Ship
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: At the start of a naval court-martial, Barney Greenwald (Jason Clarke), a skeptical naval lawyer, reluctantly agrees to defend Lt. Steve Maryk (Jake Lacy), a first officer of the Navy who took control of the U.S.S. CAINE from its domineering captain Lt. Philip Francis Queeg (Kiefer Sutherland) during a violent…
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Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant: A masterfully manipulative war thriller
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay…
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Sisu: Doing His Finnish Duty to the Dullest Extent
Storyline via IMDB: During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word “sisu”,…
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Getting Beyond 1917
Plot via IMDB A young German soldier’s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I. All Quiet on the Western Front, Germany’s official Oscar submission, echoes not only its Erich Maria Remarque source novel, but Sam Mendes, 1917, another World War I film. This is the first German language version of…
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To Know Guernica Is to Fall
He saw Guernica in front of him and knew what falling was in all its gray grace and white horror. “Jesus, how they huddle together like close trees in a savage wind,” he thought, noticing his phlegm falling into the acid of his stomach. By the time he left the museum dusk…
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We Need to Look Longer
The eye feels the light, the lens knows the truth:The children silentunder a blue tarpamongst the rubble— their little backpacks still on their backs offering the hope they still might stand upthen, the beat—and the realization that will never happen.You want to look awayyet you can’t. You must look closer.You must look for longer.Again and…
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The History of the Stone from David’s Sling
Five smooth stones David culled from Elah’s brook, Shepherd knowing dense ones to fit sling’s crook. He released the first on Goliath’s shright the giant falling back dead with the smite. Goliath gazing into David’s eyes felt his blade render head for David’s prize. Head held high, high and tight, in David’s…
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Veteran Day
The stars on the flag started falling off when Private Walker returned home to Tennessee after six months of being in country in Afghanistan. – At Camp Leatherneck on the treadmill he folded five points to pentagrams, imagined fireworks nova his welcome back. – The flag rarely flapped in the arid silence of base camp.…
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Napalm Girl
Little did they know little Napalm Girl that while your skin seared and your cry became the shriek of war that in fiery, fiery Dresden would you find your finest burst after 50 years of dropping peace bombs. – The genuine scream of a child will change the world. – Note: A poem based on…