Columns
Friday, March 8 2013
Everyone Lost: Protest Art and the Iraq War
While people were killing and dying, what did it matter whether there were decent songs being sung, insightful films being produced, appropriate art being inspired? When did poetry ever stop a war?
Reviews
Friday, March 12 2010
Green Zone
Green Zone makes no pretense that it is offering anything other than hopeful, thrilling revisionism.
Blogs
Friday, June 18 2010
A Return to Redundancy: Green Zone (Blu-ray)
This is chaos by the numbers, well acted and efficiently edited, but doing little more than rattling our reality before sitting back to sell us an already known bill of goods.
Friday, March 12 2010
Enter this 'Zone' at Your Own Risk
By now, it's a given that we went to war in Iraq under the questionable directives of some equally suspect intelligence. Saddam had nothing to…
News
Thursday, March 25 2010
Separating fact from fiction in Iraq war films
Familiarity is not necessarily the friend of the Iraq moviegoer. As the Los Angeles Times' foreign editor from 2002-08, I visited Baghdad before and after…
