Most of the films screening at the 25th annual Phoenix Film Festival were made in the last few years. But on the evening of Saturday, March 29, the festival will screen “Platoon,” which was made in ...

When it comes to Hollywood depicting the horrors of war, many filmmakers do all they can to capture the gritty realism and violence of battle, even though they weren't there to see it in person.

This is my 40th year as a professional movie critic. Which is mildly surprising to me, and would have been more surprising to a particular person I met with in late 1992. When I first interviewed for ...