Jarhead also presents wild scenes that probably ... We passed time with the same silly formations, reckless football games, and endless conversations about girls left behind.

Initially, "Jarhead" delivers some jolts ... was nicknamed "Ellie Bows" and referred to by the feminine pronoun; the football game that degenerates into a "field-fuck" of pantomimed sodomy ...

Jarhead, directed by Sam Mendes and based on the bestselling memoir by former U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford, brings a psychological depth to the modern war narrative that’s left viewers calling ...

And while Mendes had no option but to jettison much of the prose, you have to wonder why he chose to show the post-football-match abuse of a jarhead named Kuehn - the platoon queuing up for a ...

and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing.

you know the routine - Jarhead quickly progresses to the Saudi Arabian desert, where Jake and his fellow squaddies stave off the hot, sandy tedium with illicit booze, football matches and war flicks.

Whatever else you may want to say about the film version of Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir, "Jarhead," it certainly makes for an unusual war movie -- maybe the only one in which the hero sees ...

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are ...

Then again, Full Metal Jacket was a belated blast at our long involvement in the Vietnam War, with its wide media coverage, whereas Jarhead is concerned with the heavily censored and barely ...

HUDSONVILLE, MI – In a split vote, the Hudsonville Public Schools Board of Education voted to ban the book, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.” During a May ...