Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "platoon"

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Tigerland **** (2000, Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr) – Classic Movie Review 4236

This scary, in-your-face 2000 movie tells the tale of a group of American army recruits undergoing horrific infantry training, in a gruelling test of their physical and mental stamina, at Fort Polk, Louisiana – the […]

Aug, 25

Fixed Bayonets! **** (1951, Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 3476

Cult favourite writer-director Samuel Fuller delivers a tough, rough and robust Korean War action thriller, starting with his intelligent, thoughtful screenplay telling the story of a separated platoon of weary American infantrymen. It is set in 1950 during […]

Mar, 15

Heartbreak Ridge **** (1986, Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Mario Van Peebles, Everett McGill) – Classic Movie Review 3289

Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this stalwart, gung-ho 1986 action drama about the US Marines’ 1983 invasion of Grenada, written by Vietnam veteran James Carabatsos. His tough, bantering, foul-mouthed screenplay rings the changes on […]

Jan, 23

Kajaki **** (2014, David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle, Benjamin O’Mahony, Bryan Parry) – Movie Review

A devastating, terrifying look at the appalling peril in which a platoon of young British soldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment find themselves at the Kajaki Dam, in southern Afghanistan, in 2006. A sniper patrol sets out […]

Nov, 26

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