05 Jun
Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.
Posted in 1979, Comedy, USA, War by: admin
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30 Apr
Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia […]
Posted in 1984, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mexico, Romance, USA by: admin
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14 Apr
John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and […]
Posted in 1982, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA by: admin
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28 Mar
A WWII paint set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces please different parts of the island. When a devise of British soldiers are sent on a lesson behind rival lines, things don’t progress exactly to ambition. This coat differs in that some of the ‘heros’ are extremely reluctant, but they appear good when […]
Posted in 1970, Action, Drama, USA, War by: admin
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25 Mar
Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists […]
Posted in 1999, Drama, Germany, Mystery, Thriller, USA by: admin
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08 Feb
Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of […]
Posted in 1989, Action, Drama, History, USA, War by: admin
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04 Dec
During World War II, Lieutenant Kelly learns of a German bank located behind enemy lines containing 16 million dollars in gold bars. His platoon, led by Big Joe, has three days of R&R coming, so, with the aid of hustler Crapgame, anachronistic hippie Oddball, three Sherman tanks and a touch of irreverence, Kelly leads his […]
Posted in 1970, Action, Comedy, USA, War, Yugoslavia by: admin
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09 May
John Rambo’s former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman’s request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel […]
Posted in 1988, Action, USA, War by: admin
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06 May
The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of […]
Posted in 2001, Action, Drama, Romance, USA, War by: admin
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05 May
In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto’s Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo’s […]
Posted in 2005, Drama, History, Romance, USA by: admin
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