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Thank you for your service
Washington Post reporter and editor David Finkel spent eight months embedded with soldiers of the Army’s 2-16 infantry battalion in Iraq during the surge. Finkel’s devastating and widely praised The Good Soldiers (2009) is…
The Best Years of Our Lives
TCM has been showing movies in honor of Memorial Day since this past Friday evening. Its Memorial Day Marathon continues through this evening until early tomorrow morning. It kicked off its observance on Friday with the…
Netflix’s doc explores alternative Charles Manson theories
One of America's more famous documentarians, Errol Morris, was intrigued by Tom O'Neill's Chaos, a 2019 book delving into the mysteries around the murders committed in 1969 by people associated with the hippie…
‘Andor’ is a Star Wars show about the brutality of government bureaucracy
Since the dawn of Star Wars, there's never been any confusion about whether the Empire is good or bad: The Empire is, and has always been, evil, committing acts of planetary genocide while attempting to put down the…
Trump declares he will impose 100 percent tariffs on all foreign films
Foreign films fucked: Another week, another round of tariffs! Yesterday, President Donald Trump said he would be imposing 100 percent tariffs on all foreign films. "WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!" declared…
‘Thunderbolts*’ is a therapy session for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Thunderbolts*, the latest installment in the long-running, hugely successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), plays like a therapy session for a struggling franchise. This is mostly a good thing. The movie opens with Yelena…
In praise of Zeppo Marx and Shemp from the Three Stooges
Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother, by Robert S. Bader, Applause Books, 368 pages, $34.95 Shemp!: The Biography of The Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face Of Film Comedy, by Burt Kearns, Applause Books, 280 pages,…
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