"Letters From Iwo Jima" is a necessary movie; too bad it's not a great movie. The first major film made by an American -- Clint Eastwood -- to tell the story of the war in the Pacific from the ...
Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate, deadly ...