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...films--capturing a hill from the bad guys, getting an enemy uniform in gun sight, wooing a pretty maiden in a distant land--don't apply to a conflict on city streets, with the enemy in mufti and the local women off-limits. For another, the number of soldiers at risk in Iraq is, compared with past conflicts, relatively small--a niche market, if you will, like the audience that has paid to see Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah (with Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron) or Gavin Hood's Rendition (with Reese Witherspoon and Meryl...
...Iraq films is Brian De Palma's low-budget, no-star Redacted. Based (like Elah) on an actual atrocity, it takes the form of a multimedia documentary: a mix of simulated TV-news reports, YouTube blogs, video posts and a daily video record of the war, kept by a soldier whose buddies see their sergeant blown up by an IED and go a little crazy. In a long scene that shocks and sickens, they break into an Iraqi home, rape a girl and slaughter her family. An antiwar splatter movie, Redacted ain't subtle. What De Palma is going...
...fingers a là Mr. Burns of “The Simpsons,” nervous as a squirrel despite his manly, muscled exterior. Kelly preserves his confusing storytelling style by splicing between multiple plot lines. The narration is delivered by Justin Timberlake, who plays Pilot Abilene, an ex-soldier previously stationed in Iraq. Timberlake does a surprisingly good job of portraying a doped-up prophet. In one scene, he dances about an arcade with a troupe of leggy, chesty girls, and is clearly in his element in the music video-like setting. Likewise, Mandy Moore is apt at playing...
Soon thereafter, Zornow began fielding requests to DJ parties around campus. He has made a decent business out of it, even if it means spending Saturday night as a dance commander rather than a foot-soldier of funk...
Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World...