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Alt Film Guide (blog)
March 21, 2010
It was closely followed by the Paul Greengrass-Matt Damon
Iraq war thriller
Green Zone, which fell to the #6 spot with $1.85m. The $100 million production ...
Los Angeles Times
March 21, 2010
Unlike many current lawmakers, who live in the fortified
Green Zone or possess a second passport, Zamili has never left his home in
Sadr City, ...
Independent
March 21, 2010
HeyUGuys.co.uk (blog)
March 21, 2010
Those against the war don't want to see it made into
Entertainment, and the heavily charged political message contained within, that the wrong decisions ...
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2010
"The Ghost Writer" and "
Green Zone" raise many of the right questions about how and why we went to
war in Iraq, but then fall short in trying to answer them ...
The Guardian
March 19, 2010
Fitzsimons has given a detailed account, published in the Guardian today, of the violence in the
contractor's residential quarters in the secure
Green Zone ...
Associated News Today (blog)
March 19, 2010
On my to-do list this weekend: make a plan for the
Easter holidays that: a) doesn't require a second
mortgage to pay for it; and b) will distract the kids ...
Ipswich Queensland Times
March 19, 2010
A FORMER soldier has given his first account of the shooting that led to the death of an Ipswich man recruited to work in Baghdad's Green Zone. ...
Washington Post
March 19, 2010
Green Zone. This politically charged thriller should draw in news-savvy high-schoolers. The movie puts you at the dizzying center of the action in
Iraq in ...
Danbury News Times
March 19, 2010
"
Green Zone" is an
Iraq war docudrama disguised as another of Damon's Jason Bourne
spy thriller hits and "Remember Me" is a rather bleak romance set in New ...
Newsweek
March 19, 2010
And on the heels of Avatar's 3-D megasuccess, the 3-D movie Alice in Wonderland crushed
Green Zone at the box office. To be fair, it wasn't just because ...
AlterNet
March 19, 2010
Today marks the seventh anniversary of
the US-led invasion of
Iraq. We go to
Baghdad to speak with Yanar Mohammed, President of the
organization of Women's ...
New Zealand Herald
March 19, 2010
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2010
Vanity Fair
March 18, 2010
I was on discuss why
movies about the American war effort in
Iraq have failed to resonate with audiences. The latest such film was
Green Zone, which, ...
Detroit Free Press
March 18, 2010
Associated News Today (blog)
March 18, 2010
Green Zone | This
Iraq war drama uneasily balances fact and fiction. If the
Iraq war had never happened, Green Zone might have been a serviceable and ...
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2010
New York Daily News
March 17, 2010
The picture is so left-leaning that
Michael Moore tweeted, "It is the most HONEST film about the
Iraq war made by Hollywood." The plot has Damon's character ...
New York Daily News
March 17, 2010
The picture is so left-leaning that
Michael Moore tweeted, "It is the most HONEST film about the
Iraq war made by Hollywood." The plot has Damon's character ...
Tufts Daily
March 17, 2010
The box office receipts may have come as a surprise, but there is one obvious reason the movie failed: It was about the
Iraq war.
movies concerning the
Iraq ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 17, 2010
MTV.com (blog)
March 17, 2010
"
Green Zone," released last
friday, stars Matt Damon in a war-centered action flick that can easily be summed up with the high-concept pitch: "Jason Bourne ...
New York Times (blog)
March 17, 2010
And its critique needs to be persuasive, in the case of the
Iraq war, not only to people who were opposed to the invasion from the beginning, ...
Vancouver Sun
March 17, 2010
New York Times
March 17, 2010
Mr. Senor, who went on to become a commentator for
Fox News and co-founder of the Foreign Policy Initiative with other alumni of pro-
Iraq-war advocacy, ...
ABC News
March 17, 2010
The star of such flag-waving
films as "Saving
private Ryan" and "Apollo 13" and producer of the
World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers" ...
Box Office Prophets
March 16, 2010
If any film about the
Iraq war was going to hit, it should have been this one, but it seems pretty clear at this point that none of these
films will for a ...
Popular Mechanics
March 16, 2010
The military conspiracy-thriller
Green Zone, a policy debate masquerading as an action movie, has a premise that invites scrutiny. ...
Tapped (blog)
March 16, 2010
Huffington Post (blog)
March 16, 2010
I first heard the term RED ZONE in reference to the
war in Iraq. The term seemed to imply that if you entered the RED ZONE of
Iraq and you were an American ...
Dallas Morning News
March 16, 2010
Cincinnati CityBeat
March 16, 2010
Or is it, due to the aforementioned
Iraq war relevance, a companion piece to Greengrass' phenomenal United 93? This adaptation of
Rajiv Chandrasekaran's ...
OmniNerd (blog)
March 15, 2010
I heard it described in a review somewhere (or maybe in the comments about a review) as the JFK of
Iraq war movies, and that's pretty much on the mark.
Hamilton Spectator
March 15, 2010
A rush of new
movies had so-so openings, led by Matt Damon's
Iraq war thriller
Green Zone, which debuted at No. 2 with $14.5 million. ...
The Swamp (blog)
March 15, 2010
Then again, Matt Damon's
Green Zone also made a debut with a graphic and dramatic reminder that the premise for going to
war in Iraq was groundless (No ...
The AtlanticWire (blog)
March 15, 2010
Contactmusic.com
March 15, 2010
The director, who is currently promoting his
Iraq war drama '
Green Zone', admits the conflict is a tough area to adapt cinematically, but is pleased at the ...
New York Times
March 15, 2010
Mr.
Maliki was treated at Medical City, a compound of hospitals in
central Baghdad, and not a fancy facility in the city's
Green Zone where one might expect ...
Los Angeles Times (blog)
March 15, 2010
"The
Green Zone" doesn't get a lot of green. Another big disappointment for Universal Pictures as the Paul Greengrass-Matt Damon
Iraq war drama "The Green ...
