Recent films #1:

[jrittenhouse]

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR: **, and a lot of that is for the interesting odd-couple of Philip Seymour Hoffmann and Tom Hanks as two inside connivers in the 1980s in Washington who managed to push hard enough with the right information and schmoozing to get the United States solidly behind the covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.  With

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[stoutfellow]

I haven't seen the movie of Charlie Wilson's War, but I did read the book after Molly Ivins recommended it. It was a fascinating, and seriously disturbing, story.