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Mission Kandahar: Progressive Script Can’t Disguise Its Hell-Is-Other Countries Premise

Mission Kandahar: Progressive Script Can’t Disguise Its Hell-Is-Other Countries Premise

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekMay 25, 2023Mission Kandahar, Ric Roman Waugh, Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Bahador Foladi, American, TerrorismComment

9/11 Kids: Hot Docs film on CBC follows the adult lives of a Grade 2 class who were symbols of terrorist trauma

By Linda Barnard

ReviewJim SlotekApril 22, 20209/11, President George W Bush, The Pet Goat, 9/11 Kids documentary, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival., Elizabeth St. Philip, Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, COVID-19 effect on movies, TerrorismComment

Hotel Mumbai: Intense Docudrama Delivers Horror of Terrorism, Tropes of Disaster Pics

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMarch 28, 2019Hotel Mumbai, Anthony Maras, Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, TIFF 2018, Terrorism, disaster movie, fact-based drama, Jason Isaacs, Nazanin BoniadiComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Hotel Mumbai Director on the Dilemma of Dramatizing Mass Murder

By Liam Lacey

InterviewMarch 28, 2019Anthony Maras, Dev Patel, Hotel Mumbai, TIFF 2018, Armie Hammer, fact based drama, Terrorism, Interview, Q&AComment

Sicario: Day of the Soldado loses its immoral soul the second time around

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 28, 2018Sicario, Denis Villeneuve, Drug cartels, human trafficking, refugees, Mexican border, Benicia del Toro, Josh Brolin, Terrorism

Stronger: Heroism ain't what it's cracked up to be

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 21, 2017Terrorism, Boston Marathon, Awards season movies

Ireland's 'Troubles' problematically settled in a car in The Journey

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2017International politics, Terrorism, Ireland's 'Troubles', Historical films