Thinking Outside the Box

"...events that took place in the pacific theatre during WWII, it was unlike any game before or since...."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wrapped and Ready

"...Liaisons, takes these actors through the paces of a post-WWII love triangle set in the cattle land of New..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Freaky Tales

Multi-storyline film features a quasi-mystical vision of Oakland in 1987

"...Boden and Fleck piloted two episodes of Apple TV+ WWII aviation epic Masters of the Air, but their return..."

April 4, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Six Triple Eight

Tyler Perry drama about the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in WWII

"...Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in WWII. Debuts on Netflix Dec. 20...."

Dec. 6, 2024 Movie Review

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Martin Scorsese narrates this doc about England's most famous filmmaking duo

"...the Archers’ breathtaking CV, providing useful context to their WWII run making the most artful propaganda films you ever..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

A commando unit takes on the Nazis in this hyperviolent Guy Ritchie action-comedy

"...Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII (Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, and Arash Amel are also..."

April 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Long Game

True-life story of Mexican-American teens who make a run at the 1957 state golf championship

"...Dennis Quaid plays retired golf pro Frank Mitchell, Pena’s WWII war buddy, who recommends membership and offers mentorship on..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Jessi Cape

Texas Book Festival 2022

"...(Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze) in..."

Nov. 8, 2022 Photo Gallery

Five Readings With Chronicle Writers at the Texas Book Festival 2022

Catch up with the Chron's editorial team in conversation with authors at this year's celebration of literature

"...of Power, Ships of Vengeance: The U.S. Navy in WWII and the Cold War..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Ce N'est Pas Un Jet

"...City, April 30] contains a few factual errors about WWII airplanes. The North American P51 Mustang was a single..."

April 30, 2021 Postmarks

Shadow in the Cloud

WWII creature feature is a Frankenstein’s mess

"...cartoonish as anything Warner Bros. turned out in those WWII shorts. There is a full-blown Wile E. Coyote gag..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Want to Hunt and Blow Shit Up With a Tank?

New York Times insert advertises “Tank & Machine Gun Sampler Package”

"...Ranch of Uvalde, where you can "drive & shoot WWII tanks." The Tank & Machine Gun Sampler Package is..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

The Railway Man

Colin Firth stars with Nicole Kidman in this memoir about a WWII POW in Burma who, in the present day, still suffers repercussions.

"...100,000 forced laborers, both civilian and POWs. In the WWII movie canon, the tragedy in Burma is a lesser-told..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Another gruesome twosome for your weekend's viewing

"...it's a solid little thriller. In the midst of WWII, a couple (Vic Morrow and Jessica Harper) move to..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Shepherd

Matt Damon abandons the cat-and-mouse theatrics of his Bourne identity to play the reserved fictional functionary whose life serves as the prism through which this film examines the early years of the CIA.

"...professional, the kind of bright and dependable guy the WWII-era OSS and later the fledgling, postwar CIA would recruit..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vote for Your Life

"...won a major military victory in 60 years. In WWII – we killed over 900,000 civilians from bombing in..."

June 19, 2006 Postmarks

Two Men Went to War

A WWII comedy of errors begins when two British military dentists swap their drills for grenades.

"...in short supply, is the antithesis of most recent WWII films – there’s nary a breath of Saving Private..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kitchen Stories

The science of efficiency is undone by the unpredictability of human emotion in this Swedish comedy.

"...had this caution repeatedly drummed into their heads. A post-WWII group of home scientists, the institute conducts efficiency studies..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Robert S. McNamara, the confounding former secretary of defense during the Vietnam era, may be visionary filmmaker Errol Morris' best interview "get" ever.

"...Rationality will not save us). He talks about his WWII association with Gen. Curtis LeMay, a leading "bomb ’em..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

"...plummet. And while the direction by Jonathan Mostow (the WWII U-boat charmer U-571) lacks the tough-guy humanity of Cameron’s..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spider

"...classist underpinnings of a long-vanished, thoroughly grotty England, part pre-WWII stodginess and part Monty Python-esque absurdity. His characters tend..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Boys in the Barracks

Texas Documentary Tour present Arthur Dong's award-winning 1994 documentary about gays in the military, 'Coming Out Under Fire.'

"...Tom Reddy, one of the nine gay and lesbian WWII veterans who, with wry, often bittersweet humor and insight,..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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"...dropped bombs in many places since the end of WWII. China 1945-46, Korea 1950-53, China 1950-53, Guatemala 1954, Indonesia..."

March 7, 2003 Column

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) and “Chimps: So Like Us”

"...at the role of women on the homefront during WWII. The film's emphasis is not so much on women's..."

Nov. 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Au Revoir, Les Enfants

"...event that happened at his childhood boarding school during WWII. Some Jewish boys who are being sheltered at the..."

Aug. 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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"...connection between the historical symbols of Japanese imperialism in WWII (i.e.: the Japanese Zeros with a rising sun background)..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column

Goodbye, Boys

"...a lyrical coming-of-age story about three graduating teenagers during WWII whose summer idyll of chasing girls on the Black..."

Nov. 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Name Is Ivan

"...visually poetic portrait of a 12-year-old Russian orphan during WWII, who works as a spy behind enemy lines...."

Nov. 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Road to Redemption

"...church-financed films (be it the Rev. Sun Myung Moon-backed WWII clunker Inchon or more recent fare such as Trinity..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.

"...transporting of children began nearly on the eve of WWII and had overloaded ships full of squalling, unhappy tots..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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