"Jarhead" is a war movie that rises above the war and tells a soldier's story. It tells it with the urgency and pointlessness that all men's stories have, because if something has happened to us, then ...

“I love this job. I thank God for every day he gives me in the Corps. Hoorah,” says an oil-soaked Jamie Foxx in Sam Mendes’ new epic war film “Jarhead.” To see this scene in all of its unfettered ...

Warning: "Jarhead" is not an action film. For those of you hoping for deafening gunfire, blood-and-guts and blinding missile lightshows, rent "Black Hawk Down." "Jarhead" is what happens when there is ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden. A soldier goes to war and returns home never the same. That might be the one common experience of all wars, and yet, like fingerprints, ...

There is a point in Sam Mendes’ film “Jarhead,” when rockets come rushing in on his Marines in the desert, that I think “Thank God” because I get to feel that again. To sit in the dark and sense the ...

WHAT keeps a well-made film from achieving greatness? How does a motion picture with impressive parts end up a less than compelling whole? When the film is as strong in its elements as “Jarhead,” no ...

On the surface, “Jarhead” and “Brokeback Mountain” seem like diametric opposites. But probe a little deeper, says the films’ star, Jake Gyllenhaal, and you’ll find dramas that place masculinity under ...

The movie Jarhead (Universal) is unusually faithful to Anthony Swofford’s memoir of life in Marine Corps during the first Gulf War—which isn’t entirely a good thing. It’s a terrific book, but it needs ...

Anthony Swofford's memoir of his time as a Marine in the first Iraq war, Jarhead, has been adapted to the screen. The film starring Jake Gyllenhaall, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx, opens Friday in ...

In his best-selling memoir, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” Anthony Swofford writes a beautifully astute passage about his older sister’s mental illness and the life ...

The title of the film Jarhead has me wondering: What is the origin or meaning of that term? The Dictionary of the Modern United States Military says it comes from the "haircut worn by many Marines: ...

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 based ...