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 ...

He shattered the facade of U.S. suburbia, peered into the soul of a Chicago hitman and in his new movie, “Jarhead,” British director Sam Mendes is again examining an American subject -- U.S. Marines ...

“Every war is different. Every war is the same,” Marine sniper Anthony “Swoff” Swoffer narrates in Jarhead. So too, is every war movie. Jarhead, based on Swofford’s memoir of the first Gulf War, is ...

Academy Award winning director of American Beauty Sam Mendes now puts us directly in the line of fire during the first Gulf War in the adaptation of Anthony Swofford's Jarhead. It's the summer of 1990 ...

The title of Anthony Swofford's urgent, harrowing, and wickedly funny memoir Jarhead refers to the "high-and-tight" haircuts worn by Marines during Gulf War I, but the term gets recycled into many ...

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 Santa ...

Jarhead is based on the 2003 memoir by Marine Corps sniper Anthony Swofford The film, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx, is an episodic account of the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE - Film Fans runs in the Friday Weekend section of the Gwinnett Daily Post. It features local residents reviewing the film of the week: "Jarhead." Want to be a Film Fan? E-mail ...

"Jarhead," set in 1991 during the first Gulf War, is a kind of lightweight variation on Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," with its evocation of the institution known as the United States Marine ...

"Apocalypse Now," "The Deer Hunter," "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket" ? the Marines of "Jarhead," based on the best seller by Gulf War veteran Anthony Swofford, know them all by heart. They are the ...