From the Cheap Seats

Seeing as how it’s five years since the tanks rolled in to Baghdad, the statue of Saddam was toppled and we were told it was ‘Mission Accomplished!’, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on the movies that have emerged from our misbegotten adventure in Iraq. After all, there’s an impressive roster: Lions for Lambs, Redacted, […]

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As Daniel Day Lewis collected his Oscar last month, there was one name absent from his roll call of thank-yous. Not a major omission by any standards, but maybe it would have been appropriate for the newly anointed Best Actor to acknowledge the spectre that hovers above There Will Be Blood, the film for which […]

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