Tagged: military

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2010s / Action / Adventure / Thriller / War

Triple Frontier (2019)

After a nearly five-year hiatus from writing and directing films (with the exception of his untimely departure from Deepwater Horizon) , J.C. Chandor re-emerges with Triple Frontier (not the best title, taking its name from, according...

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2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction

The Predator (2018)

The Predator starts off with a spaceship that has crash landed in a forest somewhere in Mexico, resulting in Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook, Logan), a highly skilled sniper from the U.S. Army who is in...

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2010s / Comedy / War

War Machine (2017)

When was the last time Brad Pitt (By the Sea, Fury) gave a performance that didn’t resemble an alien trying to control a human host? That’s the question I posed on Twitter shortly after screening War...

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2010s / Drama / War

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Zero Dark Thirty, or ‘oh dark thirty’, the military’s way of saying ‘sometime in the middle of the night’, (here, it alludes to the local time of the attack on the compound in Pakistan reenacted...

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1980s / Action / Adventure / War

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Rambo: First Blood Part II is one of those films that doesn’t really have much going for it these days save for the social significance for the time in which it was released, where...

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1980s / Comedy / War

Stripes (1981)

Many of the creative forces behind the hit comedy Animal House reunited for a similar vehicle for Murray, Stripes.  This one was a military face, but the formula would be the same, where a group of uncouth...

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1990s / Drama / War

Courage Under Fire (1996)

Captain Karen Walden (Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle) is the first woman ever to be nominated for the military’s vaunted Medal of Honor after dying in a seemingly heroic effort in the Gulf War.  A colonel named...