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Memorial Times and News
Jun 2nd
The US Coast gets hit with a new oil spill, Arizona gets breached by more immigrants from Mexico. Economist Nouriel Rabini (Dr. Doom) reports that there is still doom in our near future. In space news, NASA secretly launches its X-37 spy shuttle in hopes to find terrorists and begin the domination of space wars! Also college students are still partying like it’s 1999 more than 10 years later and here in Boulder it’s the Memorial Day Boulder Creek Festival and the 3rd year for us at Boulder Channel 1 to host a Live TV booth there come down and check it out if you get a chance.
“Body of Lies” Interesting, but Not Engaging
Oct 16th
Interesting, but Not Engaging
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
BODY OF LIES is a modern-day spy thriller set in the Middle East that holds your attention while you are watching it, but after it is over, you might feel unsatisfied.
The fourth collaboration between Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott, the film also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the ground who is in almost constant cell-phone communication with Crowe, his handler back in the United States.
In fact, Crowe’s Ed Hoffman can even be directing DiCaprio’s Roger Ferris while Hoffman is at home guiding his young son to the bathroom or at one of his children’s soccer games.
And even when Hoffman is at CIA headquarters, the satellite technology is so sophisticated that he can watch Ferris while Ferris is driving out in the desert or even running through crowded streets.
Their main objective is to catch Al-Saleem, an Islamic terrorist mastermind behind two massive suicide bombings in Europe. To this end, Ferris concocts a complicated scheme to make an innocent man look as if he is another terrorist mastermind competing with Al-Saleem, in order to draw Al-Saleem out into the open.
As part of the plan, Ferris needs the cooperation of a man named Hani, who is the head of Jordan’s covert operations and who tells Ferris his one
rule: that Ferris must never lie to him.
Hoffman, however, tells Ferris, “You cannot trust Hani. Am I clear?”
Now, the film seems to be a training manual for terrorists in showing just how certain operations can be accomplished, such as how to get one man into one automobile out in the desert without revealing to an overhead satellite which automobile he is in.
The film also shows warfare at its best. Or should that be at its worst?
After a while, however, we might find ourselves asking do we really care what happens any more?
The theme could be described as “Nobody is innocent,” but there seems to be too many similarities to too many other recent films, some better and some not as good, but is that the fault of this film or the fault of the novel on which it is based?
Even a semblance of a love story seems to be generic and just plopped down into the plot.
BODY OF LIES is interesting to watch, but not very engaging.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Body of War – Movie Trailer
Aug 21st
On September 13, 2001 — a mere two days after the 9/11 attacks — Tomas Young, a Kansan with an overwhelming sense of patriotism and loyalty to his country, felt moved to enlist in the United States Armed Forces. Equipped with the courage to fight and rid the world of the threat of terror, Young anticipated an appointment in Afghanistan that would enable him to join his fellow soldiers in rooting out and bringing to justice Al-Qaeda operatives. This did not occur, however, and President Bush’s order to invade Iraq stunned everyone, including Tomas. He soon found himself shuttled off to a land that posed no obvious threat to the United States, where he was instantly struck by a bullet from behind — and rendered both paraplegic for life and unconscious. Airlifted home, Tomas slowly regained awareness of himself and his surroundings, settling in for a long, grueling recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the nation’s capital, with the assistance and loving support of his mother. But the young man’s journey did not end there. As he lay in his hospital bed, unable to move, Tomas learned of the countless injuries and deaths afflicting hundreds of thousands in Iraq. In the process, he became one of the nation’s most ardent opponents of the Iraq invasion. With their nonfiction work Body of War, longtime television pundit Phil Donahue and documentarian Ellen Spiro join forces to relay Tomas’ heart-wrenching and yet deeply affirming story — both a testament to one man’s enduring inner strength and a towering condemnation of a localized conflict that owes much, if not everything, to the miscalculation and intrusion of the United States.
