Tag Archives: Iraq

Pete’s Peek | Why does the 1970′s film Punishment Park continue to upset America?

Posted on 18 February 2012 by peter

Set in a future where America’s war in Vietnam has led to the setting up of detention camps to hold dissidents, director Peter Watkins’ 1971 pseudo-documentary involves a British film crew, led by Watkins himself, following one group of radicals … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Devil’s Double – Standing in a psychopath’s shoes… and wearing his clothes too

Posted on 12 August 2011 by Jason Best

Dominic Cooper delivers a mesmerising dual performance in The Devil’s Double, a gaudy, gory thriller inspired by the intertwined lives of Saddam Hussein’s psychopathic eldest son and the man who became his body double. As Saddam’s playboy son Uday, he’s … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Green Zone – Matt Damon is Bourne-again in war-torn Iraq

Posted on 15 March 2010 by Jason Best

Matt Damon teams up again with Paul Greengrass – his director in the last two Bourne movies – for Green Zone, a frenetic conspiracy thriller set in post-invasion Iraq. The film is inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s highly acclaimed non-fiction book … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Stone goes soft: a lenient portrait of George ‘Dubya’ Bush in W.

Posted on 7 November 2008 by Jason Best

As America awakes this week from the nightmare of the past eight years and the world exults in the historic election of Barack Obama, Oliver Stone delivers his biopic of the man Obama is replacing, the man who has a … Continue reading →

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