Six Vietnam War movies have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and some, like Platoon and The Deer Hunter, won, ...
It’s always ambitious for a filmmaker to tackle the war genre, since you have to make such films with a particular amount of care. War movies don’t necessarily have to reflect or retell some kind of ...
Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...
There are exceptions for sure, but most war movies should capture some kind of heaviness, or emotional intensity, since war itself is blatantly bad for reasons that hopefully don’t need to be ...