Some, including Republican Sen. John McCain, accused director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who last collaborated on The Hurt Locker, of falsely suggesting that intel gleaned through torture is what led the CIA to bin Laden. The ensuing controversy hit fever pitch. Is ZDT a nearly journalistic work? Is it morally repugnant propaganda? Mostly, […]
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Zero Dark Thirty
Some, including Republican Sen. John McCain, accuse director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who last collaborated on The Hurt Locker, of falsely suggesting that intel gleaned through torture is what led the CIA to bin Laden. The controversy is at a fever pitch. Is ZDT a nearly journalistic work? Is it morally repugnant propaganda? […]
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Osombie
So there’s that. Utah doubles for Afghanistan as the flick follows an American Special Forces unit picking off “Class D hostiles” — that’s code for undead Middle Easterns — as it searches for the enemy camp. They pick up a extra help when they run across a Colorado woman (Eva Mauro, Miss March) searching for […]
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Inspector Inhofe
Now, some of the Lincoln-shot- Kennedy-from-the-grassy-knoll-in-Area 51 types out there may still have a few doubts. Luckily, Inspector Jim Inhofe is on the case. Sen. Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was the first member of Congress to view photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse recently made available by the CIA. […]