“I love this job. I thank God for every day he gives me in the Corps. Hoorah,” says an oil-soaked Jamie Foxx in Sam Mendes’ new epic war film “Jarhead.” To see this scene in all of its unfettered ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his best-selling memoir, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” Anthony Swofford writes a beautifully astute passage about his ...

In “Jarhead,” Sam Mendes’ 2005 film about the Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, “war is boring as hell” is perhaps more apt than the oft-touted saying, “war is hell.” One of the few war ...

A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was ...

Anthony Swofford's memoir of his time as a Marine in the first Iraq war, Jarhead, has been adapted to the screen. The film starring Jake Gyllenhaall, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx, opens Friday in ...

Training is followed by the real thing: Swofford is sent to Saudi Arabia with his scout/sniper colleagues. The mission: Guard the oil fields from a possible attack by Saddam Hussein. Codename: ...

The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is based ...

Get ready to head back to the Persian Gulf War, as one of the most underrated war films of the 21st century has found a new streaming home: Universal Pictures' Jarhead, the 2005 film starring Jake ...

THE TRICKIEST of genres, the war film isn’t like Westerns or comedies or horror films, which don’t typically receive serious attention, and in turn, include all kinds of twisted ideas. War films, ...

A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was ...

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