Matthew Modine, seen at the New York premiere of Zero Day in February, produced and appears in the documentary "A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket." File Photo by Derek ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

In the often meticulously controlled world of Stanley Kubrick films, it’s hard to imagine anything making it into the final cut without first going through rounds of rewrites, rehearsals, and retakes.