Files on government involvement in popular culture, from the CIA in Hollywood to the Pentagon and reality TV. I obtained these documents via FOIA requests and from various archives.
Lone Survivor is a piece of absolute militaristic schlock, starring the whiny-voiced Marky Mark Wahlberg as Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell…
GI Jane is a crude, clumsy attempt to show a ‘woman’s perspective’ on being in the military, that ruined Demi…
One issue that comes up repeatedly in the script changes enforced by the Pentagon is war crimes, and other violations…
I was looking forward to Godzilla: King of the Monsters, having been a fan of giant creature features since I…
Sometimes the US military’s rewriting of scripts is very specific – take out this joke about the US losing in…
Amazon Prime’s The Boys is not only the most enjoyable TV show I’ve seen all year, it’s also the most…
Co-founder of the Village People and co-writer of ‘YMCA’, ‘Macho Man’ and ‘In the Navy’ Henri Belolo died last saturday…
The US Army’s emails on The Long Road Home show that not everything ran smoothly while filming progressed at Fort…
I recently obtained 50 pages of documents from the CIA on the support they provided to Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie…
The teaser trailer for season 2 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan depicts John Krasinski as the eponymous hero in a…
A story doing the rounds in the last few days claims that the producers of Top Gun: Maverick changed the…
The US military’s negotiations on the 1980s Clint Eastwood vehicle Heartbreak Ridge were protracted and complex, resulting in numerous changes…
