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In the Valley of Elah

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Thursday, September 20 2007

In the Valley of Elah

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


News

Wednesday, January 2 2008

Iraq War-themed films can't find an audience

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…


Thursday, October 11 2007

A new script for Hollywood war movies

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…


Monday, October 1 2007

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

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.…


Friday, September 21 2007

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

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"…


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