Every war film contains an element of truth, but movies like Hacksaw Ridge and 1917 aim to tell unique and compelling stories on the big screen.

How Blockbuster Movies Got So Long — And Why Critic Chris Klimek crunches the numbers to examine how and why blockbuster films like Avengers: Endgame grew to such great, bladder-busting lengths.

My must-see summer movies include Tom Cruise in ... the summer blockbuster is back. Advertisement. ... (who made one of the best movies of 2025, “Civil War”). The rage virus is still out there ...

That title would be the 2021 Chinese box office juggernaut The Battle at Lake Changjin. Quietly available on Prime Video in the United States, this feature’s not a household name domestically, but its ...

The Blockbuster World War I Film that Brought Home the Traumatic ... In true democratic fashion—another formula of American war films—Jim becomes best friends with two working class ...

By the mid-1950s, producer Max E. Youngstein had defined a blockbuster as any movie that grossed over $2 million, and United Artists was aiming to release at least one blockbuster per month.

Why are popular movies called blockbusters? Here are the wartime origins of the term. ... Among the Best Picture nominees is the World War I epic 1917, which was also a hit with ticket-buyers.

How Blockbuster War Movies Capture China’s Changing Nationalism. Now the country’s highest-grossing film ever, ‘Wolf Warrior 2’ merges Hollywood-style thrills with state-sanctioned patriotism. By Wu ...

War For the Planet of the Apes is a truly remarkable piece of “summer blockbuster” filmmaking. To the point where I do wonder what summer audiences, used to pretty colors and explosions, will ...

The movies of the first half of the 80s didn’t bother with the pain of war. As the decade wound down, though, we finally started to see that pain, and not just the glory of war.