Actor Kevyn Major Howard, who played the Marine combat photographer Rafterman in the Vietnam War movie “Full Metal Jacket,” died on Feb. 14 at the age of 69, according to media reports. Howard’s ...
One of the central conceits in one of Stanley Kubrick‘s most popular works will be restored on Prime Video after mysteriously disappearing. There has been an uproar in the past few days when the ...
What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke? Matthew Modine, who starred in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick war comedy “Full Metal Jacket,” is outraged that Amazon changed the artwork on the ...
The phrase full metal jacket appears nowhere in the book upon which the movie is based. While Kubrick was “enthralled” with Vietnam veteran Hasford’s The Short-Timers, he was concerned about using the ...
The recent death of Kevyn Major Howard, the actor who portrayed Rafterman in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War film “Full Metal Jacket,” has rekindled memories of the real Marine who inspired the ...