Director: David Robert MitchellCast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel ZovattoA strong contender for the best horror film of 2014, It Follows runs with its brilliant central concept and never drops the ball. We never really learn what the 'It' is, except that it's a mysterious entity that's somehow sexually transmitted, manifesting as a variety of shuffling injured strangers, or sometimes as people known to the victims it inexorably pursues. It's an interesting twist on the slasher movie "promiscuous teens get killed" trope, with the wrinkle that if you find yourself affected, you can just shag someone else and get rid of it, like a chain letter. That rule takes the film to some very dark places.Read The Empire Review
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As much a love story as it is a war movie, "The Americanization of Emily" sees Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison, an easy-living American soldier played by James Garner, fall for an Englishwoman, played by Julie Andrews, only to have their newly blossoming romance thrown into turmoil when he gets sent on a dangerous and senseless mission. Set in the time period just before D-Day, the film is based on a novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie.
War and comedy are not often words heard in the same sentence, unless, of course, you are speaking about Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder." The late '00s movie follows a group of actors who head out into the jungle to make a film about the Vietnam War only to find that they must become the soldiers they're pretending to be. The cast is packed with some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise, and Matthew McConaughey.
One of the first war movies to tackle the Gulf War, "Courage Under Fire" follows an army officer who is tasked with determining whether or not a posthumous Medal of Honor should be awarded to a downed helicopter commander, all while dealing with his own demons. It stars Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, who plays the fictional Capt. Karen Emma Walden, who, in the film, became the first woman to win the honor for valor in combat.
An all-star cast and the seven Oscar nominations for "Cold Mountain" secured its place as one of the best war movies of all time. The early '90s movie follows a Confederacy deserter, played by Jude Law, as he journeys home to reunite with the woman he loves, played by Nicole Kidman. A sort of early American "Odyssey," the film is surprisingly historically accurate and deeply emotional.
The Washington Post called "Casualties of War" "one of the most morally complex movies about men at war ever made." The film, which is about how war drags men down into barbarism, is a tough watch. Set during the Vietnam War, it tells the story of the incident on Hill 192, in which an American squad kidnapped, raped, and killed a young Vietnamese woman despite the vehement objections of one of their own.
While it's not rooted in reality, per se, this impactful Quentin Tarantino movie tells the story of a revenge plot against the Nazis with Jewish soldiers taking the lead. Brad Pitt stars, with Christoph Waltz stealing the show as a Nazi colonel trying to stop the soldiers from achieving their goals. The film did extremely well at the box office and earned a variety of Oscar nominations for best motion picture, best director, and more.
The penultimate film of Stanley Kubrick's career, "Full Metal Jacket" details the process of a Marine from boot camp through his combat deployment in Vietnam. As opposed to the war movies of the mid-20th century, this film paints war as an excruciating ordeal that can barely be survived. Matthew Modine stars alongside Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, and R. Lee Ermey.
"The Deer Hunter" is another film about the ravages of war on a soldier's psyche after the battle is over. This time it's Vietnam, with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage playing three deeply scarred men. The American Film Institute named it one of the best movies in American history, and Academy Awards voters agreed. They named the movie best picture in 1979 and gave Meryl Streep her first Oscar nomination.
A companion piece to "Flags of Our Fathers," "Letters From Iwo Jima" is a Japanese-language film about the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers who fought it. The Clint Eastwood picture stands apart from the war movie crowd because it's not a story of hard-fought victory, but rather one of inevitable defeat, the type of story rarely seen on the big screen. It was clearly a take that resonated with critics and audiences alike, as demonstrated by the film's box office success and nomination for several prestigious awards including Best Picture at the Academy Awards. 2ff7e9595c
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