Tagged with war film

Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016, dir. Michael Bay

Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016, dir. Michael Bay


Maybe Obama should have postponed his final State of the Union until after the premiere of Michael Bay’s latest fascist masterwork. At least then, Ted Cruz would have been too busy sitting in an empty theater with his pants around his ankles to offer response. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (henceforth referred to solely … Continue reading

The Hurt Locker, 2009, dir. Katherine Bigelow


2009’s sucker-punching Iraq war military drama, The Hurt Locker, is a tense and episodic film, and perhaps one of the most individual war movies ever made. In any examination of war, politics almost inevitably find a way to trickle down into the story’s bloodstream and flood it with its ideological leanings and proclivities. What makes … Continue reading