Kong: Skull Island (2017)
A quintessential popcorn flick, Kong: Skull Island doesn’t try to go deep with important themes or get entrenched in lots of set-up or explanation, built on the premise that audiences want lots of action and humor...
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick’s (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey) film version of former Marine Gustav Hasford’s semi-autobiographical novel, “The Short-Timers” (1979). Hasford also contributed to the screenplay, although the film version is...
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Winner of Best Picture of 1978, The Deer Hunter was the first major release to deal with the troubling issue of Vietnam head on, with an often unflinching portrayal of the horrors of the war,...