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Top Gun: Maverick’s official premiere at Cannes this week has provoked renewed interest in the Hollywood – military relationship. I…
BookAuthority – a website purporting to be an authority, or possibly the authority, on books has placed Superheroes, Movies and…
In one of our more raucous and totally unscripted appearances, Matt and I were recently on Historic.ly, a podcast devoted…
First the CIA tried to block the public from being exposed to its dirty deeds—but now the strategy has shifted…
Today I joined William Ramsey of William Ramsey Investigates to discuss some of the weird and wonderful things in the…
While Amazon’s new Reacher series may not have enjoyed the support of any of the usual suspects in the state-sponsored…
Something I found while flicking through Production Weekly (a Hollywood newsletter that charts in-production TV and films) is that the…
Roger alerted me to a recent article in Jacobin Mag about how Spider-Man’s working class origins have been thoroughly subverted…
In the latest in our ongoing series of film reviews, research and analysis discussions Henri from Fortress on a Hill…
My new book Superheroes, Movies and the State: How the US Government Shapes Cinematic Universes is now available. Co-authored with…
We all know that Hollywood is a bit cash-strapped due to lockdown-related COVID-influenced box office problems, but even I was…
The guys from Fortress on a Hill had me back on to discuss the case of Clint Lorance – an…
Britain’s Security Service, commonly known as MI5, joined the social media app Instagram a few days ago with the apparent…
Matt and Luke of the Sci-Fi Sanctuary invited me back to talk about the late 90s NSA and CIA-supported thriller…
In the latest of our regular film reviews, Henri and Keagan from Fortress on a Hill and I tackled 1998’s…
I recently joined Henri of Fortress on a Hill to complete our discussion on Oliver Stone’s Vietnam war trilogy, this…
My misadventures with celebrity journalism continued recently as Asia Times published something of a hit piece deriding me for daring…
Jon and Matt invited me on their podcast In the Context of Empire recently to discuss National Security Cinema and…
That most reputable of tabloids, The Sun recently published an article about Angelina Jolie’s relationship with the CIA, based almost…
Luke and Matt of Matt and Luke’s Sci-Fi Sanctuary invited my on their podcast recently to talk about the Paul…
Online streaming service Hulu have announced that they are adapting the popular podcast series ‘Winds of Change’ into a TV…
ANNOUNCEMENT: Courtesy of Investig’Action National Security Cinema is now available for readers of the language of love, snails, overrated cheese…
By Matt Alford In 2017, we released National Security Cinema with no advertising, no publisher, no jacket designer, no distributor,…
With the third season of The Rookie only weeks away the Hollywood Reporter have reported that the show has been…
One of the benefits of working with academics such as the lovely Tricia Jenkins is that you get your work…
Following Angelina Jolie’s recent interview with the head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger, journalist Alan Macleod assembled a critical profile…
I recently joined Scott Horton to talk about the Department of Homeland Security’s Hollywood office. We discussed the process which…
The third episode of CBC’s Myths on Screen – How Hollywood helped the U.S. military sell the War on Terror…
Part 2 of the excellent Myths on Screen: Hollywood at War series aired this week and is available to download…