cultural cold war

A story doing the rounds in the last few days claims that the producers of Top Gun: Maverick changed the...

A story doing the rounds in the last few days claims that the producers of Top Gun: Maverick changed the...

Fields of Fire is one of the greatest movies that was never made. A brutal but sympathetic portrait of the...

Fields of Fire is one of the greatest movies that was never made. A brutal but sympathetic portrait of the...

Black Panther and Django Unchained are perhaps the two most successful movies featuring black actors in lead roles that Hollywood...

While it is now considered a Cold War classic Ice Station Zebra was a flop when it was first released....

Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for many things – being Mr Universe, The Terminator, the Governator and Commando.  Now he’s trying...

Yesterday, LA Magazine published a piece on the military and Captain Marvel and – I’m pleased to say – they...

Since the publication of National Security Cinema last summer, we have seen an uptick in the media coverage of the Pentagon in Hollywood, much of it originating with the Pentagon itself. This week I take a look at the PR efforts the DOD has embarked upon, about its own PR efforts in Hollywood. From Captain Marvel to Gerard Butler, this is a reflection on the power of exposing information.(Read more...)

Air Force One is one of the great military commercials disguised as a feature film. Laden with Russophobic rhetoric and corny dialogue about the heroism of the US military, it ticked every box for the DOD so they granted it full production support.