The Jarheads of the title are a group of young and relatively inexperienced Marines facing their first real combat in the Iraqi war. Sam Mendes' film deals with some familiar dilemmas of the modern battle field, namely; ‘who exactly am I fighting and why?', a question compounded by a heady mixture of fear and the desire to shoot someone. The first hour and a bit is about their confusion and increasing disgruntlement with the lack of clarity of their orders and how tedious the almost 4 months the find out more...

From previous wars we've had poetry. books, diaries and consequential films, but never before a movie edited from home video shot by a soldier. US Marine artillery officer Scotti has done something unique in this video diary of the sea voyage out, the base camp in Kuwait, the long drive up to Baghdad, liberation and the consequent collapse into anarchy, and Scotti even manages to keep the camera running during firefights. Clips from the news media are interposed to keep us up to date with the ov find out more...

An action movie that also plays as a satire on the double standards of the Allies during the Gulf War; in particular the plight of the Kurds. A group of American soldiers go AWOL in search of a stash of hidden gold and find themselves doin' good for a band of refugees desperate to escape from Iraq. 'Three Kings' is an enjoyable if slightly confused movie, you can't help wishing they had gone for either action or satire, rather than attempting to squidge the two genres together. But, nevertheless find out more...

John Cusack plays Brand Hauser, a hitman hired to assassinate oil minister Omar Sharif in the fictional Middle-Eastern state of Turaqistan, which is now run by American private corporation Tamberlain. But upon encountering the beautiful and intelligent anti-corporation/anti-corruption journalist Natalie (Marisa Tomei) and the overly sexy but incredibly childlike Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), Hauser slowly falls into moral quandry. 'War Inc' is a political satire aimed at confronting the absurdi find out more...