Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The first crime of Father Amaro, it seems, was in his ever allowing himself to get mixed up with that gang of mobsters known as the Roman Catholic Church

In Love and War is a New Line release of a Richard Attenborough film, based on Henry Villard’s book, Hemingway in Love and War. It is co-written by Villard’s son, Dimitri. Villard Sr. was in Italy with Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the (American) nurse on whom Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms is…

Want to make a documentary? You would be well-advised to follow as closely as you can the media’s master-narrative of 20^th century history

A movie that proves you don’t have to be a left-wing nut to make documentaries these days; you can also be a right-wing nut

A persuasive and watchable version of the 16^th president makes us not mind too much the reduction in scale of his great story from the epic to a grubby political wrangle

Galaxy Quest, directed by Dean Parisot and written by Robert Gordon and David Howard is a hilariously funny spoof of the “Star Trek” mania chronicled in Roger Nygard’s recent documentary, Trekkies. Nygard’s film is as sad as it is funny, since it shows us real people who choose to live in a fantasy world. But…