Movie Star Blog

The trailer for Jarhead was just released. It’s definitely going to be an Oscar contender. Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) is giving us a soldiers-eye-view of the first War in Iraq - Operation: Desert Storm. I predict that Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Proof), Jamie Foxx (Ray, Collateral), Peter Sarsgaard (Garden State, Boys Don’t Cry), and Chris Cooper (Adaptation, Seabiscuit) will all have great chances of nominations come awards season because of this film. It looks like the most personal-level (focused on characters instead of explosions) war film since Full Metal Jacket, considered by many to be the greatest war film ever made.