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KANDAHAR

May 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment

KANDAHAR

KANDAHAR has the virtue of being more than a quotidian action tale of espionage and its attendant machinations. By taking a brooding rather than kinetic approach, it becomes a bittersweet meditation on, as one character sums up very neatly, the idea that modern wars are not meant to be won. The implications of that provide… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, Dubai, espionage, fanaticism, nuclear facility, politics, Saudi Arabia

WAR DOGS

August 23, 2016 By 1 Comment

WAR DOGS

The problem with WAR DOGS is that it refuses to decide what it wants to be. Jittering uncertainly between farce and melodrama, it achieves a few moments of sublime absurdity as it satirizes the business of war by hewing to, and exposing the facts of, said endeavor’s economics. Yet, when it decides to tug at… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, Albania, arms dealers, based on a true story, bullets, Iraq

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

March 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT is being sold as a comedy and that shortchanges everyone. Based on the memoir by Kim Barker, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” about her time in the early 2000s as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, it is a trenchant look at media, politics, and the separate reality that… Read More »

Tagged With: Afghanistan, based on a true story, book to screen, journalism, network news, war, war correspondent

Amir Bar-Lev Tells THE TILLMAN STORY

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Amir Bar-Lev Tells THE TILLMAN STORY

The story of Pat Tillman, who gave up a lucrative pro football career in order to enlist after 9/11, had all the makings of a legend. When he was killed in Afghanistan, the media and the military made him into a hero who gave his life to save his fellow soldiers. The problem was that… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, American military, Amir Bar-Lev, cinema, controversy, documentary, film, hero worship, media manipulation, Pat Tillman, pro football, Silver Star

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