Cecelia MacDonald is a recent gradute of York University's Cinema and Media Studies program with an ephasis on screenwriting and genre-studies. They are based out of Toronto, working on small film ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Whatever else you may want to say about the film version of Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir, "Jarhead," it certainly makes for an unusual war movie -- maybe the only one in which the hero sees ...

After working with the legendary Conrad L. Hall on his first two films — American Beauty and Road to Perdition — director Sam Mendes partnered up with cinematographer Roger Deakins for the first time ...

A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was ...

LOS ANGELES — The change that Jake Gyllenhaal's Anthony "Swoff" Swofford undergoes in the new film Jarhead is conveyed through tone of voice, through subtle differences in posture, through the glint ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden. A soldier goes to war and returns home never the same. That might be the one common experience of all wars, and yet, like fingerprints, ...

"Jarhead" is a war movie about a generation of soldiers who grew up watching war movies — which only reminds us how superior those first films were. "Apocalypse Now," "The Deer Hunter," "Platoon," ...

"Jarhead" is a war movie about a generation of soldiers who grew up watching war movies - which only reminds us how superior those first films were. "Apocalypse Now," "The Deer Hunter," "Platoon," ...

A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was ...