The dirty secret about combat memoirs isn’t that war is senseless or that heroes are often terrified or that the battlefield can turn even good men into dehumanized monsters or that everyone is bored ...

It was my first time. The experience was not as sexy as the first R-rated movie I snuck into (Purple Rain) or as violent and arty as the last (Full Metal Jacket), nor as trippy as the first time I did ...

After a slew of Vietnam movies exploding with blood and guts, “Jarhead” slows the hard-hitting action down and opens a doorway to a different aspect of war.Based on the best-selling 2003 memoir by ...

On June 7, more than 10 years after the theatrical debut of “Jarhead,” the critically acclaimed biographical war drama about a young Marine sniper (Jake Gyllenhaal) deployed to Iraq during Desert ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are very close, as Sarsgaard has been married to his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, for several years now. According to The Cut, Sarsgarrd first met The Lost Daughter ...

Toward the end of “Jarhead,” Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir about the 1991 Gulf War, the author argues that those who “have never fought” have no right to praise the purity of war and warriors. “These ...

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 ...

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 ...