WHAT keeps a well-made film from achieving greatness? How does a motion picture with impressive parts end up a less than compelling whole? When the film is as strong in its elements as “Jarhead,” no ...

In “Jarhead,” Sam Mendes’ 2005 film about the Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, “war is boring as hell” is perhaps more apt than the oft-touted saying, “war is hell.” One of the few war ...

"Apocalypse Now," "The Deer Hunter," "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket" ? the Marines of "Jarhead," based on the best seller by Gulf War veteran Anthony Swofford, know them all by heart. They are the ...

A Marine unit stationed in the hostile province of Helmand Afghanistan wilderness faces a harrowing mission as they try to help a fugitive woman reach safety from the Taliban in JARHEAD 2: FIELD OF ...

Academy Award winning director of American Beauty Sam Mendes now puts us directly in the line of fire during the first Gulf War in the adaptation of Anthony Swofford's Jarhead. It's the summer of 1990 ...