ClandesTime 210 – Conspiracy Theories: Cultural Marxism in Hollywood
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 09/13/2020 - 07:15‘Cultural Marxism’ is a term that these days is almost exclusively used by hard right wing critics of the popular...
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#BoycottMulan and the Great Hollywood-China Hypocrisy
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 09/10/2020 - 11:09The Hollywood Arms Race took another step towards mutually assured cultural oblivion this week, as the #BoycottMulan movement grew and...
Homeland Security in Hollywood: How the Dept Controls Its Image On Screen
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 09/04/2020 - 05:29In my latest article for Shadowproof I delve into the Department of Homeland Security’s Hollywood office, which works on everything...
Subscribercast #44 – Battle of the Genres
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 08/24/2020 - 09:07Hollywood, Washington and The Bomb
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 08/07/2020 - 07:00Reading Time: 16 minutesYesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the dawn of the nuclear age. Given the current wave of disrespect for science and scientists, and the difficulty of secrecy, something like the Manhattan Project probably could not happen today.
Subscribercast #43 – Media Breakdown: Hollywood and Copaganda
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 07/22/2020 - 05:20On this month’s subscribercast I break down and analyse an interview by the Hollywood Reporter with Warren Leight, the showrunner...
Subscribercast #43 – Media Breakdown: Hollywood and Copaganda
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 07/22/2020 - 05:20On this month’s subscribercast I break down and analyse an interview by the Hollywood Reporter with Warren Leight, the showrunner...
When MGM — and the FBI — Chased ‘The Father of the Atomic Bomb’
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 07/15/2020 - 07:00Reading Time: 7 minutesPublished this month, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, reveals how the White House and the military in 1946 sabotaged a long-forgotten MGM movie.
Subscribercast #42 – Systemic Racism and Cop Shows
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 06/14/2020 - 10:36How much responsibility does the TV crime genre have for police racism, brutality and corruption? On this month’s subscriber-only podcast...
Subscribercast #42 – Systemic Racism and Cop Shows
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 06/14/2020 - 10:36How much responsibility does the TV crime genre have for police racism, brutality and corruption? On this month’s subscriber-only podcast...
Myths on Screen – The Full Series
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 06/13/2020 - 10:39This three-part radio documentary produced by CBC (and featuring Matt, Tanner Mirrlees and myself, among others) explores the role Hollywood...
Myths on Screen – The Full Series
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 06/13/2020 - 10:39This three-part radio documentary produced by CBC (and featuring Matt, Tanner Mirrlees and myself, among others) explores the role Hollywood...
Theaters of Command Trailer
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 06/08/2020 - 06:23Theaters of Command Trailer
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 06/08/2020 - 06:23Myths on Screen Episode 3
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 05/26/2020 - 15:22Myths on Screen Episode 3
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 05/26/2020 - 15:22Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda – Tom Secker on CBC
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 05/12/2020 - 07:08The first episode of the three-part radio documentary Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda has just come...
Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda – Tom Secker on CBC
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 05/12/2020 - 07:08The first episode of the three-part radio documentary Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda has just come...
ClandesTime 204 – Why the Entertainment Liaison Offices Matter
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 04/25/2020 - 08:16Over more than a century the US government’s entertainment liaison offices have supported over 1000 movies, along with thousands of...
ClandesTime 204 – Why the Entertainment Liaison Offices Matter
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 04/25/2020 - 08:16Over more than a century the US government’s entertainment liaison offices have supported over 1000 movies, along with thousands of...
‘Virtually Every Character in the Film is Either Corrupt, Corrupted or Witless’ – The US Army and Sgt. Bilko
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/02/2020 - 07:54One of the most harmless films to be rejected by the US military is 1996’s Sgt. Bilko, based on the...
‘Virtually Every Character in the Film is Either Corrupt, Corrupted or Witless’ – The US Army and Sgt. Bilko
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/02/2020 - 07:54One of the most harmless films to be rejected by the US military is 1996’s Sgt. Bilko, based on the...
John Krasinski Plays the Innocent Act When it Comes to Making Political Propaganda (Again)
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/22/2020 - 12:4313 Hours and Jack Ryan star John Krasinski gave another interview recently where he claimed that appearing in cryptoconservative propaganda...
John Krasinski Plays the Innocent Act When it Comes to Making Political Propaganda (Again)
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/22/2020 - 12:4313 Hours and Jack Ryan star John Krasinski gave another interview recently where he claimed that appearing in cryptoconservative propaganda...
JAG: The Movie That Was Never Made
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 02/20/2020 - 05:48In 1988, several years prior to the highly successful JAG TV show, DOD representatives met with writers and producers to...
JAG: The Movie That Was Never Made
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 02/20/2020 - 05:48In 1988, several years prior to the highly successful JAG TV show, DOD representatives met with writers and producers to...
Review: Eagle Kill
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 02/19/2020 - 07:13Review: Eagle Kill
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 02/19/2020 - 07:13Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 02/11/2020 - 06:57The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 02/11/2020 - 06:57The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
Subscribercast #38 – The Negotiator and Israel’s Nuclear Smuggling Ring
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/09/2020 - 10:26When you think of radical or counter-establishment films the 1998 thriller The Negotiator probably doesn’t come to mind, especially if...
Subscribercast #38 – The Negotiator and Israel’s Nuclear Smuggling Ring
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/09/2020 - 10:26When you think of radical or counter-establishment films the 1998 thriller The Negotiator probably doesn’t come to mind, especially if...
Acting Up: Meghan Markle, Ricky Gervais, and the Other ‘Fox News’
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 01/26/2020 - 10:00Reading Time: 3 minutesLONDON — Ricky, Ricky, Ricky (Gervais), what have you done? You crazy, mixed-up comedy kid (aged 58). I love your work, dude.
Subscriber Podcast #37 – The CIA, Torture and Hollywood
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 12/22/2019 - 05:54Perhaps the most insidious rewriting of recent history by Hollywood is Zero Dark Thirty‘s narrative that torture helped find Bin...
Subscriber Podcast #37 – The CIA, Torture and Hollywood
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 12/22/2019 - 05:54Perhaps the most insidious rewriting of recent history by Hollywood is Zero Dark Thirty‘s narrative that torture helped find Bin...
Rape, Murder, Drugs and Racism: Why the Pentagon Rejected Platoon
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 12/17/2019 - 05:14The Vietnam war drama Platoon was recently inducted into the US Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, in recognition for...
Rape, Murder, Drugs and Racism: Why the Pentagon Rejected Platoon
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 12/17/2019 - 05:14The Vietnam war drama Platoon was recently inducted into the US Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, in recognition for...
New Top Gun: Maverick Trailer Abandons Any Pretence at Military Realism
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/16/2019 - 09:41The DOD’s doctrine on working with Hollywood says that assistance can only be provided to productions that offer audiences a...
New Top Gun: Maverick Trailer Abandons Any Pretence at Military Realism
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/16/2019 - 09:41The DOD’s doctrine on working with Hollywood says that assistance can only be provided to productions that offer audiences a...
How Hollywood And The Pentagon Collude To Cover Up Military Sex Crimes
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 12/11/2019 - 07:19Sexual assault in the U.S. military is on the rise. Internal documents reveal the Pentagon’s entertainment liaison offices have spent...
How Hollywood And The Pentagon Collude To Cover Up Military Sex Crimes
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 12/11/2019 - 07:19Sexual assault in the U.S. military is on the rise. Internal documents reveal the Pentagon’s entertainment liaison offices have spent...
Black Widow the Latest Marvel-Military Collaboration
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 12/05/2019 - 08:42For anyone hoping that the end of phase 3 of the MCU would bring some respite from the relentless schedule...
Black Widow the Latest Marvel-Military Collaboration
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 12/05/2019 - 08:42For anyone hoping that the end of phase 3 of the MCU would bring some respite from the relentless schedule...
‘Navy nurses were proper ladies and proper ladies did not get “horny” in 1941’ – DOD File on Pearl Harbor
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 11/27/2019 - 08:11Pearl Harbor (2001) is the perfect example of how to spend a lot of money making a terrible film. Beset...
‘Navy nurses were proper ladies and proper ladies did not get “horny” in 1941’ – DOD File on Pearl Harbor
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 11/27/2019 - 08:11Pearl Harbor (2001) is the perfect example of how to spend a lot of money making a terrible film. Beset...
Subscriber Podcast #36 – The LAPD’s Hollywood Office
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 11/24/2019 - 09:25Just like many federal agencies the Los Angeles Police Department have a dedicated entertainment liaison office for dealing with Hollywood....
Subscriber Podcast #36 – The LAPD’s Hollywood Office
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 11/24/2019 - 09:25Just like many federal agencies the Los Angeles Police Department have a dedicated entertainment liaison office for dealing with Hollywood....
NPR Censors Their Podcast To Cover Up for US Govt Censorship
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 11/22/2019 - 08:37Yesterday, NPR’s podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed “Top Gun” (and the rest of Hollywood)....