Buffralo Soldiers stars Joaquin Phoenix as Ray Elwood, a drug-dealing thief who keeps his fellow soldiers at a US army base in Germany supplied with the bare essentials.

When the Irish were shipped to Australia towards the end of the 1800s, they were met with the same levels of prejudice and disdain from the already settled English as they had experienced back on home turf.

The Berlin Wall is about to come down (the story is set circa l989) and we meet a group of US soldiers bored and behaving badly.

The release of a dark comedy about the American military starring Joaquin Phoenix has been postponed for the fifth time because Miramax Films executives are worried that audiences will find it offensive.