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My new book Superheroes, Movies and the State: How the US Government Shapes Cinematic Universes is now available for pre-order. …
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…
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…