JAMES LONGSTREET: LEE'S WAR HORSE—H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad—University of North Carolina Press ($3.50). On the afternoon of July 3, 1863, with the echoes of the greatest ...

War Horse so wants to be family-appropriate that it loses sight of what it is: a war movie. At no point does it consider as anything more than textual asides the horrid conditions of trench ...

War Horse is adapted from a London stage play, in which the full-grown horses were operated by several clearly visible puppeteers. It seemed easy - like an obvious opportunity to make it all ...

"War Horse" is about Joey, a farm horse sold to the British Army in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, and sent to the battlefront . . . and about Albert, ...

It’s hard not to be wowed by the stage magic of “War Horse.” But if you like your spectacle in service of story — rather than the other way around — you might find this undeniably ...

The movie is based on Michael Morpugo's 1982 best-seller, which was previously adapted for the stage. By Todd McCarthy An elegant, elemental, borderline corny boy-and-his horse story magnified in ...

steven spielberg 'War Horse' Although audiences will likely identify most with the humans performing in Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," the director says the actors who surprised him most were the ...

War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated film about a boy and his horse who are separated by war, will have its wide release on Christmas Day, Dec. 25.. The film is an emotional WWI ...