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Posts Tagged "Vietnam"

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Bat*21 *** (1988, Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed) – Classic Movie Review 12,274

Gene Hackman stars as US air force Lt. Colonel Iceal ‘Ham’ Hambleton, in the 1988 war film Bat*21. ‘Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him… And only one man can save him.’ Director […]

Aug, 07

FTA [Free the Army] *** (1972, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 11,934

‘The show the Pentagon couldn’t stop!’ – but the White House stopped the film show, apparently. ‘Hanoi Jane’ Fonda and her then lover Donald Sutherland bring back the bitter flavour of the anti-Vietnam movement of […]

Feb, 15

1969 *** (1988, Robert Downey Jr, Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder, Joanna Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 10,793

Writer-director Ernest Thompson’s 1988 drama 1969 is a sincere and genial period piece, with appealing performances from the young Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr as intelligent hippy Scott and his sensual best mate Ralph, […]

Jan, 15

Uncommon Valor *** (1983, Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Patrick Swayze, Reb Brown, Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 10,305

Director Ted Kotcheff’s exciting, tough though not-too-violent 1983 action war thriller Uncommon Valor follows the exploits of obsessed US Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) and his dirty half-dozen of crack vets trying to […]

Sep, 14

Go Tell the Spartans **** (1978, Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith) – Classic Movie Review 9902

Director Ted Post’s 1978 war drama Go Tell the Spartans stars Burt Lancaster as Major Asa Barker, a top US military adviser, who is worrying about Vietnam back in 1964, and he has to save […]

Jun, 13

Hamburger Hill **** (1987, Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 9605

British director John Irvin’s 1987 Hamburger Hill is a robust and vigorous Vietnam film that unfairly got rather lost in a year when they were in vogue. It is not as special as Full Metal […]

Apr, 06

Monsoon **** (2019, Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran, Molly Harris) – Movie Review

Henry Golding gives a tender portrayal of a man trying to reconnect with the place he once called home in Hong Khaou’s poignant meditation on cultural displacement. Writer-director Hong Khaou’s second feature film Monsoon (2019) […]

Oct, 04

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