Just like many federal agencies the Los Angeles Police Department have a dedicated entertainment liaison office for dealing with Hollywood....
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For weeks the internet has been awash with claims, rumours, scuttlebutt and hearsay about some kind of shooting at the...
For weeks the internet has been awash with claims, rumours, scuttlebutt and hearsay about some kind of shooting at the...
The relationship between intelligence agencies and the entertainment industry is complex and multi-faceted. Angles include the influence of the agencies...
1988’s The Presidio wanted to film at the real Presidio in San Francisco, an Army installation. As per usual this...
In late 2009 the FBI got wind of the fact that Martin Scorcese was developing The Wolf of Wall Street,...
Public Enemies is a 2009 historical drama/thriller film that tells the story of the Bureau of Investigation’s manhunt for Public...
In this penultimate review episode I look at how the education system is a poor place to learn anything, how standardised testing is a form of child abuse, the fundamental problems of electoral politics, and expand on why an intelligence-based approach to societal problems is always better than a military-based approach. I also talk about the politicisation of police investigations, the relevance of Michel Foucault and what The Wire has to do with the murder of Meir Kahane by followers of the Blind Sheikh.
The Weather Underground were the most active and successful militant left-wing group in US history. As part of their anti-Vietnam war operations they bombed the Pentagon, the State Department, corporate headquarters and other high-profile targets. In this episode I examine whether they were a lethal terrorist organisation, or a non-lethal militant anti-war gang. I look […](Read more...)
The Weather Underground were the most successful Leftist militant group in history, a radical offshoot of the SDS and the anti-Vietnam War movement. As a result, Hollywood has almost no interest in telling stories about them and the only recent film on the Weathermen was Robert Redford’s low budget thriller The Company You Keep. The […](Read more...)
