In “Jarhead,” Sam Mendes’ 2005 film about the Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, “war is boring as hell” is perhaps more apt than the oft-touted saying, “war is hell.” One of the few war ...

“Welcome to the Suck.” That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, Jarhead, but it also neatly summed up my opinion of the book. I bought the audio version after two ...

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A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was ...

Cecelia MacDonald is a recent gradute of York University's Cinema and Media Studies program with an ephasis on screenwriting and genre-studies. They are based out of Toronto, working on small film ...

There are no showtimes for Jarhead. You can stream it or buy it on digital platforms below. A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The ...