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What Connects the next Mission: Impossible to the First Movie to Shoot at CIA Headquarters?

What Connects the next Mission: Impossible to the First Movie to Shoot at CIA Headquarters?

Something I found while flicking through Production Weekly (a Hollywood newsletter that charts in-production TV and films) is that the working title for Mission: Impossible 8 is ‘Scorpio’ – the name of the first movie to shoot at the CIA’s Langley headquarters.  Scorpio is a fascinating case study because it portrays the Agency as evil, dark, violent and perhaps even cruel.  So why did they grant…

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Subscribercast #51 - 12 Angry Men

Subscribercast #51 – 12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men is a Hollywood classic about a jury trying to decide whether a young man is guilty of murder.  In this month’s subscriber-only podcast I review the movie and examine its discussion of the problems and virtues of the jury system.  We look at class, race, age and gender prejudice and the way they influence verdicts in criminal trials.  In the second half of the podcast we look at the…

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ClandesTime 203 – Psychopaths and the Copycat Effect ‘Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative.’ That is a quote from the 1996 horror-comedy…

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Even the US Army Warned of Violence at the Joker Premiere But So Far, So Good

Even the US Army Warned of Violence at the Joker Premiere But So Far, So Good

For weeks the internet has been awash with claims, rumours, scuttlebutt and hearsay about some kind of shooting at the premiere of the new Jokermovie.  Even the US Army sent out a memo saying they’d received a ‘credible threat’ of a shooting attack, but the film’s premiere went off without a hitch this weekend.  It is unclear why this movie is being singled out, given the plethora of psychotic…

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As Top Gun: Maverick Trailer Drops, Tom Cruise Lies About Why the Sequel Took So Long Tom Cruise dropped into San Diego Comic-Con this week to premiere the trailer for Top Gun: Maverick…

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Keanu Reeves Trains With Former SEAL/CIA Contractor for John Wick III In what appears to be little more than a promo for the third John Wick film, a recently-released video shows star Keanu Reeves being trained by former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan. 

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The US Military Celebrate Captain Marvel as 'the film girls need'

The US Military Celebrate Captain Marvel as ‘the film girls need’

The US military, particularly the Air Force, invested a lot of time and resources in helping make Captain Marvel, and so far they are happy with the return on that investment.  Yesterday, an article on Military.com celebrated Captain Marvelas ‘the film girls need’ and ‘one the military community needs’.  But it hasn’t been long since the military were actively objecting to scenes in movies…

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How (and why) the Pentagon Rewrote Dennis the Menace

How (and why) the Pentagon Rewrote Dennis the Menace

Of all the many, many, many projects the Pentagon has supported, one of the most surprising and seemingly innocent is the mid-century TV series of Dennis the Menace.  In one episode ‘Dennis at Boot Camp’ the producers asked for permission for three days filming at the Naval Training Center in San Diego (the same one of Top Gunand Anwar Al Awlaki fame).  In return the DOD had some demands of the…

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