Review: `Redacted' a Harsh Look at War

Brian De Palma's outrage over the war in Iraq is palpable in "Redacted," his fictionalized telling of the real-life rape and murder of a teenage girl by U.S. soldiers.

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OTTAWA – The military police watchdog agency agreed Wednesday to release censored versions of Richard Colvin's emailed warnings on Afghan detainees previously withheld by the government from a parliamentary committee.

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Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed — an Egyptian-born British resident and current Guantanamo Bay detainee — have been engaged in a long-running legal battle to prove his innocence and ultimately win his release.

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In response to a declassification request by the National Security Archive, the secretive National Security Agency has declassified large portions of a four-part "top-secret Umbra" study, American Cryptology during the Cold War.

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CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years

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Brian De Palma, Nick Broomfield and Paul Haggis have been called traitors and villains, their films branded 'Bin Laden cinema'. They are desperate to tell the truth about what is going on in Iraq. But there seems little appetite for war films right now

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We've Lost Rights?

I have really been bothered lately by people who keep saying that we are "losing our rights" under the current administration. I don't see from where these folks are getting this impression.

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from the essay: The [recent anti-war] movies are essentially inauthentic. The filmmakers think they are supposed to be antiwar, but they don't feel it in their guts.

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Where is Today's Midnight Express or The Killing Fields Hollywood?

Recently while speaking to my father, I commented how few great films have been made in the last 10 years. "The 70's and 80's seemed to produce an abundance of films of the greatest order, such as Blade Runner, Breaking Away, Star Wars, and Alien" I continued.

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For two months now, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been using his various media perches to criticize and attack Brian De Palma's controversial new film, Redacted, which was financed by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

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To say Mr OReilly has had it in for me [Marc Cuban] the last month or so would be an understatement. Every day he seemed to take pride in calling me every name in the book and questioning my patriotism. I've already covered my feelings on that subject in blog posts here and here.

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"Brian De Palma, the writer/director of the controversial new film Redacted, opening Friday, took a few minutes to talk to Huffington Post the other day. As a member of the WGA, he certainly has the time, noting, "My pen is down. All pens down.""

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Zoom In Online is proud to present On the Circuit, a joint production with The House Next Door. On the Circuit features conversations with leading filmmakers and actors from the front lines of film and broadcast.

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As part of the promotional material for Valerie Plame's book, Fair Game, Simon & Schuster has provided the first chapter of the book in .pdf form at Amazon (and possibly other outlets, but Amazon is the one I know for sure has it.)

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A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.

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De Palma, 66, whose "Casualties of War" in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film's images, all based on real material he found on the Internet.

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Okay, it ain't the "family jewels" -- the CIA's documents, detailing Cold War assassination plots, kidnappings, and "behavior modification experiments." But, "very quietly, the Agency has put literally thousands of documents online on their website," Entropic Memes points out.

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