It isn’t often that the CIA’s entertainment liaison office makes the news but former CIA officer turned Democrat Representative Elissa…
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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…
Walt Disney World Resort’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens this week – 14 acres of Star Wars experience for those…
In the second part of our discussion (following Combat Obscura), Henri, Keagan and I talked about the 1989 Oliver Stone…
I recently joined Henri from the Fortress on a Hill podcast for our latest discussion on military movies. We talked…
News about this site appears to be spreading – after the flurry of articles citing Spy Culture around the release…
In this guest article Matt Alford – alongside Drs Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod and Florian Zollmann – lay…
Tom Cruise dropped into San Diego Comic-Con this week to premiere the trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, which is nothing…
The new Superman is now a Navy SEAL. No, you didn’t misread that – the affable journalist Clarke Kent is…
A week ago the US Army posted a youtube video of the Army Field Band’s new hip-hop track ‘Won’t Be…
Today I received an email that I thought I would share with you, from the publishers of the American Journal…
Netflix recently ordered a 10-episode first series of Q-Force, the world’s first animated LGBTQ spy series. Pitched as a ‘gay…
The US military’s ever-expanding portfolio of recruitment efforts just broke new ground: the Professional Fighters League. This mixed martial arts…
In a guest article for Spy Culture my good friend and co-author of National Security Cinema Matt Alford reviews Ben…
Chris and Danny invited me back onto their podcast to discuss the 1994 comedy-drama Forrest Gump. We talked about the…
The ‘biggest film of all time’ subtly promotes the infinite growth economic model that is destroying the planet. I recently…
There are many reasons to dislike Game of Thrones – the endless hype, the gratuitous sex and violence in lieu…