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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 […]
‘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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]