After a slew of Vietnam movies exploding with blood and guts, “Jarhead” slows the hard-hitting action down and opens a doorway to a different aspect of war.Based on the best-selling 2003 memoir by ...

It was my first time. The experience was not as sexy as the first R-rated movie I snuck into (Purple Rain) or as violent and arty as the last (Full Metal Jacket), nor as trippy as the first time I did ...

On June 7, more than 10 years after the theatrical debut of “Jarhead,” the critically acclaimed biographical war drama about a young Marine sniper (Jake Gyllenhaal) deployed to Iraq during Desert ...

The dirty secret about combat memoirs isn’t that war is senseless or that heroes are often terrified or that the battlefield can turn even good men into dehumanized monsters or that everyone is bored ...

Cecelia MacDonald is a recent gradute of York University's Cinema and Media Studies program with an ephasis on screenwriting and genre-studies. They are based out of Toronto, working on small film ...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are very close, as Sarsgaard has been married to his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, for several years now. According to The Cut, Sarsgarrd first met The Lost Daughter ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

Toward the end of “Jarhead,” Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir about the 1991 Gulf War, the author argues that those who “have never fought” have no right to praise the purity of war and warriors. “These ...

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 ...