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If Tokyo Rose were alive today, she wouldn't get jail time - she'd get a three-picture deal. Throwing all caution and fiscal sanity to the winds, the Hollywood establishment is releasing a slate of anti-war films that do violence to the cause of American victory - and to the art form of film. Art is best served by an open competition of ideas. When only the anti-war left is allowed to make films in Hollywood and pro-American voices are excluded, the result is movies that are ideologically rigid, morally shallow and creatively sterile. Is it any wonder that recent anti-war...

Review: IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon is a throwback to the 1970s when every young American veteran was a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode into violence. It is an anti-American, anti-military drama about an investigation into the murder and dismemberment of an American soldier who has returned from Iraq and who was waiting to go back there.... The title for this movie comes from the story of the battle between David and Goliath in the Bible, which Hank tells to Det. Sanders’ own son. You might think that the...

"Valley of Elah," Lions for Lambs", "Redacted"...Sheesh. Doesn't anybody make movies anymore?

On a night four years ago, five soldiers back from three months in Iraq went drinking at a Hooters restaurant and a topless bar near Fort Benning, Ga. Before the night was over, one of them, Specialist Richard R. Davis, was dead of at least 33 stab wounds, his body doused with lighter fluid and burned. Two of the group would eventually be convicted of the murder, another pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and the last confessed to concealing the crime. Now some in Hollywood want moviegoers to decide if the killing is emblematic of a war gone bad, part of...

Another anti troop anti war film by our friend Paul Haggis. This time on Iraq. (Yes this Iraq War). Can't they make anything positive about us?!?!!? THe trailer looks so CLiche, I just hope this film flops. Any way the following wwas written by Jason Apuzo Check out the trailer above for the forthcoming In the Valley of Elah. Here’s all you need to know: Iraq War. Paul Haggis. Charlize Theron. Susan Sarandon. Money line: “You shouldn’t send heroes to places like Iraq.” [Followed by tender shot of Al Gore’s ex-roommate raising a flag.] This entry was posted on Tuesday,...