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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…
The first episode of the three-part radio documentary Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda has just come…
With each passing day of the COVID-19 fiasco it has become abundantly clear that no one has a clue what’s…
Former Friends star David Schwimmer has been giving a lot of interviews recently to promote his new Sky TV series…
The forthcoming Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will feature Wyatt Russell as the character John Walker/U.S. Agent,…
Oddfinger: Eagle Kill is – hands down – one of the weirdest quasi-biopics I have ever seen, combining surrealism, satire…
Alan Macleod recently got in touch for an article on the US Air Force’s new drone murder video game –…
Upon its release Captain Marvel was hailed as a feminist movie, as ‘the film girls need’, as ‘solving Marvel’s woman…
I joined Henri, Keagan and Danny for a broad discussion of Amazon’s Jack Ryan and the CIA’s true history in…
A recent article on Insider accused my work of being ‘the worst example’ of pro-Russian propaganda based on the leaked…
The never-ending doublespeak over whether MI5 and MI6 officers emulate James Bond took a new twist recently, with an Army…
It isn’t often that the CIA’s entertainment liaison office makes the news but former CIA officer turned Democrat Representative Elissa…
Robbie Martin of Media Roots invited me back on the show for a lengthy, often funny discussion partly inspired by…
The DOD’s doctrine on working with Hollywood says that assistance can only be provided to productions that offer audiences a…
Sexual assault in the U.S. military is on the rise. Internal documents reveal the Pentagon’s entertainment liaison offices have spent…
Just a quickie to highlight some of the coverage resulting from my investigation and analysis of Amazon’s Jack Ryan and…
Yesterday, NPR’s podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed “Top Gun” (and the rest of Hollywood)….
It has been another curious week of half-truths, spin and outright falsehood as culture commentators get to grips with recent…
A recent report in Newsweek’s NewsGeek section has drawn attention to how video games, just like other forms of entertainment,…
With just a week to go before season 2 of Amazon’s Jack Ryan is released and the eponymous star John…
Today’s entertainment news features an absolute gem of political hypocrisy: Vietnam’s one party ‘Communist’ state has banned the animated kids’…
Former head of MI6 and Iraq War criminal Sir Richard Dearlove continued his recent speight of complaining about everything by…
As prep for my forthcoming video on Amazon’s Jack Ryan as next-gen propaganda I’ve been keeping an eye on promotions…
Recently, Martha Bayles of The Atlantic published a hilariously misleading essay calling for Hollywood to produce more pro-American propaganda, in…
The US military’s attempts to duplicate action movie technology took another leap recently as the Guardian XO robotic exoskeleton was…
The latest trailer for Amazon Prime’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is a perfect illustration of Western double standards and hypocrisy…