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Tag: Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now Is Not Just a Western, It Is the Most Western - the end of the West expansion from Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius, Vietnam War as a California surfing party
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Apocalypse Now Isn’t Just a Western, It’s the Most Western

Apocalypse Now is less a movie and more a phantasmagoric experience, a weird dreamlike collection of imagery and ideas that tries to fashion ...
By Darren MooneyApril 26, 2023
Apocalypse Now Kong: Skull Island Is an Existential War Movie
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Ape-ocalypse Now: Kong: Skull Island Is an Existential War Movie

Cinematographer Larry Fong has described Kong: Skull Island as “a mash-up between Apocalypse Now, Thin Red Line and Bong Joon-ho’s monster movie The ...
By Darren MooneyDecember 14, 2020
ad astra baggage
In the Frame

Ad Astra Examines the Baggage Humans Bring to Space

This piece containers major spoilers for Ad Astra. Space is largely empty. Based on rough calculations, matter makes up less than one sextillionth ...
By Darren MooneyOctober 11, 2019
Guy Cry Cinema

5 War Movies that Make Guys Cry

Think a grim war movie can’t be a tearjerker? Think again. The goal of this series is to show that being “manly” and ...
By Daniel EpsteinDecember 17, 2014
Gallery of the Day

8 Vietnam War Movies From Most to Least Violent

Today we look back at some of the best films to take place during the Vietnam War, though not technically a war and ...
By Schuyler J. Dievendorf Legacy AuthorJanuary 30, 2014
Gallery of the Day

8 War Movies to Get You In The Mood For Call of Duty

War movies are as American as apple pie and violence. Sit back and enjoy a short list of some of the greatest war ...
By Schuyler J. Dievendorf Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2013
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