Jarhead, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx, is now available on Netflix and offers a unique and psychological take on ...

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"Jarhead," a blow-by-blow first-person account of the Persian Gulf War, is far less compelling than Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name on which the movie is based.

War movies? What are they good for? Absolutely nothing, argues Anthony Swofford in the autobiographical Jarhead, his “Marine’s Chronicle Of The Gulf War And Other Battles”. More accurately ...

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 ...

Jarhead takes a perverse pleasure in confounding your expectations of what a war movie should be. For starters, there's not much actual, you know, war. Having joined the Marines more or less by ...

An entertainment magazine recently put the lead actors of the nonstarting Gulf War movie “Jarhead" on its cover, posing the headline question: “No combat. No politics. And a naked Marine in a ...

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,” based on Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, is not so much about war as about waiting for war, and about the impact that waiting has on a not-yet-formed young man.

Besides just being one more war film, “Jarhead" has made an attempt to separate itself from its predecessors. While almost every other film about war has been either a rousing action flick that ...

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 ...