Author: Griffin Marvin

Young provincial laborer Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) professes Seventh-day Adventism and rejects violence.

“Afghanistan” is a word in the news that is discussed in terms of our foreign policy. It’s almost an abstraction

“Platoon” is a 1986 American film about the Vietnam War. It’s one of a long line of such films. Americans love this subject. I guess it’s a complex. Of shabby pants. Still can’t get it off.

For a split second at the very beginning of Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima, you might think you’re looking at a field of stars overhead.