Day Trips: National WASP WWII Museum, Sweetwater

A collection of artifacts commemorates the women who served as pilots in World War II

"...The National WASP WWII Museum in Sweetwater tells the story of the courageous..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Wing Commander

"...in for our Pacific theatre foe as Roberts updates WWII for forward-thinking gamers everywhere. Ostensibly WWII in space, Roberts'..."

March 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Midway

Roland Emmerich goes all guns blazing recreating the pivotal sea battle

"...embracing the shopworn cliches inherent to so many classic WWII films shot either before V-J Day or in the..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Great Raid

The single dullest war film of the past decade from the once promising director John Dahl.

"...drones-turned-black-ops baddies. Like the infamous Japanese water tortures of WWII, Dahl’s film is a steadily mounting series of pesky..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enigma

"...all in one film, the German U-boat fleet of WWII, the United States' cross-Atlantic shipping convoys which provided desperately..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boot: The Director's Cut, Das

"...of Petersen's classic 1981 saga of the men of WWII German U-Boat 96, Das Boot now runs a lengthy..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Windtalkers

"...lacking any identifiable characters (usually a Woo trademark). Stock WWII clichés rule the battlefield, which is dotted by sweeping..."

June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hart's War

"...and Linus Roache. There's nothing particularly astonishing about this WWII prisoner-of-war drama; the film marries standard court-martial dramatics to..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Focus

"...in New York City during the waning months of WWII, Focus is based on Arthur Miller's first novel, a..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Liam

"...time and place -- Liverpool on the eve of WWII -- that functions as the staging ground for the..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

"...us that 10 years after the great war (presumably WWII, during which Japan was defeated not by the G.I...."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Cried

"...a sort of practiced Euro-malaise -- it's set during WWII -- that all the come-hither glances in the world..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dr. Akagi

"...a small harbor island in the waning days of WWII-era Japan, opens with the good doctor reciting his father's..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bent

"...man and bon vivant amid the erotic decadence of pre-WWII Berlin, who finds himself ensnared in the Nazis' systematic..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Down Periscope

"...-- and his screwball crew -- must pilot a WWII-era diesel sub into U.S. territorial waters and elude the..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Devil in a Blue Dress

"...Walter Mosley's novel, centers on Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a WWII vet whose pride and joy is his own home..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

An Awfully Big Adventure

"...in a Liverpool theatre company in the years following WWII. A starry-eyed teenage girl provides the focal point as..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mein Krieg

"...footage shot by six separate German Wehrmacht soldiers during WWII. These amateur filmmakers carried their home movie cameras to..."

March 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Household Saints

"...a movie ostensibly about a man in New York's post-WWII Little Italy who wins his wife in a card..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Armor of God II: Operation Condor

"...vast majority of gold stolen by the Germans during WWII. As many nations have simultaneously laid claim to portions..."

July 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Olivier, Olivier

"...larger group. In Europa, Europa, a Jewish boy during WWII adopts a variety of identities in order to pass..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zentropa

"...German-American who travels to Berlin in the aftermath of WWII to help rebuild the city in any way he..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aces: Iron Eagle III

"...his off days re-enacting the dramatic air battle of WWII alongside a trio of broken down ex-sky-jockeys from England,..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For the Boys

"...at every tear-jerking cliche floating out there in the post-WWII collective consciousness, but it's downright evil that they made..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Thin Red Line

Malick's return to filmmakng after a 20-year absence is this WWII story based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel. The film is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature.

"...Thin Red Line, his film adaptation of James Jones' WWII novel about the taking of Guadalcanal, is as visually..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

"...of unrepentant anti-Semitism comes off as downright saintly. During WWII Greenberg was one of the first to enlist in..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

P.2 Day Deux

There was evening, there was morning - a second day

"...Kate began her day with a tour of the WWII Museum, Andy was eating a big chili-cheese dog (no,..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

WWII Online: Blitzkrieg

"...WWII Online: BlitzkriegStrategy First/Cornered Rat/Playnet.com..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Review by Edward Baker

The Story of G.I. Joe

"...that it captures the miseries and indignities of the WWII footsoldier. Filthy, mud-caked, and bone-weary, Wellman's infantrymen live on..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, Battleground

William Wellman's larger-than-life legacy: Reviews of Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and Battleground.

"...During the Battle of the Bulge in WWII, the Germans surrounded the town of Bastogne. The Americans..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

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