Articles tagged "victor wolf"

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Iraq War-themed films can’t find an audience

by Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The...

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A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

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Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while...

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Tight-lipped Tommy Lee Jones on ‘In the Valley of Elah’

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, likely to be nominated again for one or both of his fall movies, “In the Valley of Elah” (opening Friday) and “No Country for Old...

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Film Review

In the Valley of Elah

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values."

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