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, ...

Warning: "Jarhead" is not an action film. For those of you hoping for deafening gunfire, blood-and-guts and blinding missile lightshows, rent "Black Hawk Down." "Jarhead" is what happens when there is ...

“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 ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden. A soldier goes to war and returns home never the same. That might be the one common experience of all wars, and yet, like fingerprints, ...

On the surface, “Jarhead” and “Brokeback Mountain” seem like diametric opposites. But probe a little deeper, says the films’ star, Jake Gyllenhaal, and you’ll find dramas that place masculinity under ...

There is a point in Sam Mendes’ film “Jarhead,” when rockets come rushing in on his Marines in the desert, that I think “Thank God” because I get to feel that again. To sit in the dark and sense the ...

The title of the film Jarhead has me wondering: What is the origin or meaning of that term? The Dictionary of the Modern United States Military says it comes from the "haircut worn by many Marines: ...

Jarhead 3: The Siege (out now on Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and Digital HD) is not really a sequel to the 2005 prestige picture Jarhead. It's not really even a sequel to 2014's Jarhead 2: Field of Fire ...

“Welcome to the Suck.” That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, Jarhead, but it also neatly summed up my opinion of the book. I bought the audio version after two ...

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 older sister’s mental illness and the life ...

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 ...