Journalists Evan Hill and Jack Crosbie review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.
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Lone Survivor (8/6/23)
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The boys are joined by writer Séamus Malekafzali, who's too young to remember 9/11 but old enough to stand face-to-face with director Peter Berg and challenge him to a blinking contest. Séamus, Evan and Jack take on Lone Survivor, Berg's 2013 sufferpalooza, which heavily fictionalizes a real-life and extremely unsuccessful Navy SEAL counterterroris…
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Zero Dark Thirty (3/2/23)
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The boys swoop in on Zero Dark Thirty like modified Black Hawk helicopters with guest Spencer Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. Kathryn Bigelow's 2013 torture fest earned major critical plaudits for its unflinching view of the GWOT's dark side, but was …
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American Sniper (12/22/22)
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We tackle the biggest totem in the War on Terror's cinematic canon — American Sniper. Clint Eastwood's surprise blockbuster brought out the masses for a post-9/11 war movie by fictionalizing the already mythological autobiography of Chris Kyle, one of the deadliest snipers in history. We talk American Sniper's dehumanization of Iraqis, its delibera…
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