Film critic turned director Rod Lurie’s latest film “The Outpost” is based on CNN Reporter Jake Tapper’s book by the same name. It opens with quotes from military leaders regarding the unique dangers of this part of Afghanistan, background notes about time and place, title credits, the names of every character on screen, location credits, […]
Documentarian Dan Krauss wades into his first feature film, adapting his 2014 doc The Kill Team for the big screen. While virtually nothing’s new in the story of a young US Army Soldier finding a conscious when faced with moral decay in his unit, Krauss dramatization of this true story is still effective. Less is
Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Bros are trying to sell their military ordered January placement film 12 Strong as something we haven’t seen before. True, last year’s Megan Leavey was a different spin on a war movie with a female marine and a German Shepard, but this film is no more about horses than Black Hawk
Even though the 88th Annual Academy Awards are in the books, foreign film nominee A War is finally making its theatrical debut. It’s the 13th time Denmark has been nominated in the category, certainly a country favorite of the committee. However, after seeing a variety of the foreign film submissions this year, A War doesn’t
The title doesn’t seem to make much sense until you look at its acronym. Rare that we find a film concerning war with a female in the title. Even rarer that we find a war centered film that is also part comedy. “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is the first time Tina Fey (“This is Where I
Screenwriter Mitch Glazer might have written one of the worst screenplays for a film released in 2015. Not only is Rock the Kasbah unfunny, but it drags the cast and deflated plot through Afghanistan in the most absurd and often offensive way.