Swearing, Drugs and Ethnic Stereotypes: Why the US Military Rejected Good Morning, Vietnam
Good Morning, Vietnam is perhaps the most popular Vietnam war film ever made. Loosely based on the real life experiences...
Documents
US Coast Guard’s Hollywood Office Takes 3 YEARS to Release 20 Pages of Documents
In March 2016 I put in a FOIA request with the US Coast Guard. Several appeals, a lot of ignored...
US Coast Guard’s Hollywood Office Takes 3 YEARS to Release 20 Pages of Documents
In March 2016 I put in a FOIA request with the US Coast Guard. Several appeals, a lot of ignored...
How the Hot Shots! Producers Tried (and Failed) to Fool the Pentagon
In March 1991 the producers of Hot Shots! An Important Movie contacted the US Marine Corps looking to film one...
How the Hot Shots! Producers Tried (and Failed) to Fool the Pentagon
In March 1991 the producers of Hot Shots! An Important Movie contacted the US Marine Corps looking to film one...
MI5 (Wrongly) Suspected Odeon Cinema Chain of Being Front for Commie Spies
A 1940s MI5 file shows that British intelligence suspected that the Odeon chain of cinemas was a front organisation providing...
MI5 (Wrongly) Suspected Odeon Cinema Chain of Being Front for Commie Spies
A 1940s MI5 file shows that British intelligence suspected that the Odeon chain of cinemas was a front organisation providing...
‘While the Script is Somewhat Clichéd, We Are Not Movie Critics’ – DOD Memo on The Heroes of Desert Storm
There aren’t very many films about the first Gulf War, which is ironic because if ever there was a war...
‘While the Script is Somewhat Clichéd, We Are Not Movie Critics’ – DOD Memo on The Heroes of Desert Storm
There aren’t very many films about the first Gulf War, which is ironic because if ever there was a war...
Ex-MI6 Boss Blasts Le Carré’s Spy Novels, Even Though MI6 Vetted Most of Them
Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has criticised spy author John Le Carré for his ‘nihilistic’ and ‘corrosive’ view of...