This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Pat Tillman, an all-star defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals, walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to enlist in the Army special forces with his younger brother just months after 9/11. Two years later, the celebrity [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The Messenger is the movie Brothers wanted to be, a homefront war drama that simultaneously shows the cost of war as well as the inherent strength of those fighting it. A tender and moving story about the [...]

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“More of this story is true than you would believe,” we are told in the opening moments of The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s a fair warning and one that bears repeating the further the film slides into incredulity and absurdity. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. No doubt intended as the comic [...]

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The Hurt Locker is an extraordinarily uncomfortable movie to watch, not because it is poorly made, but because it succeeds so brilliantly at what it does — place its audience directly in the crosshairs of life in war-torn Iraq. This is one of the best Iraq war movies yet made (though it is not the [...]

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