It’s rare to see an overtly anti-war film that drops more bodies than the ending of The Departed. But in a nutshell, that’s ’71, a film that got me sprayed with bottled water twice when the woman ...

The film is about an English private who is cut off from his unit in the middle of a riot in Belfast in 1971. It's a conventional and smashingly good chase melodrama, but it's also a tragedy. This is ...

Gary Hook is a good kid thrown into a very bad situation. The product of a children’s home in the Midlands, he heads straight into the army and no sooner has he finished training then Gary’s deployed ...

Grim, terse and jumpy, '71 effectively evokes the chaos of early-1970s Belfast. A little too effectively, perhaps, since some sequences are as bewildering as the four-way civil war the movie ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It is 1971, and you are a rookie British soldier trying to keep the peace in Northern Ireland, as a bulwark between the restive Catholic and Protestant enclaves of Belfast. You are alone, separated ...

I have learned over the years that when Mick LaSalle, the San Francisco Chronicle movie critic, trashes a political movie, it is as likely as not for its politics, rather than for its cinematic ...

Hell. Not a location we care to dwell in, though dwelling on it has occupied no small amount of time, or words, or dreadful words, since poets started studying perdition. Dante, most famously and with ...

Three veteran executives – Gary Hook, Al Gerhardt and Dave Mervin – have each been promoted to executive vice president at Minneapolis-based Kraus-Anderson Construction Co. Officials said the moves ...

One of the main jobs for even the most by-the-numbers thriller is to take the audience along the same emotional trajectory as the protagonist, making us feel what they’re feeling and, often, only ...