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"We love you, Fruity Rudy!"
Jacob, he's recapping Generation Kill, which is entertainment in and of itself. Not to mention extremely enlightening, if you didn't follow every detail and line of jargon in the episode, which, unless you've been in the military, I'm assuming is almost everyone.
'The unbelievably irritating Cpl. Ray Person drives the Humvee for Iceman's team. It's ( Read more... ) -
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Trailer for The Lucky Ones, a film by Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Interview with the Assassin) about three soldiers who return from Iraq after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Collee (Rachel McAdams) on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to ( Read more... ) -
Making of 'Generation Kill'
About the making of HBO's seven-part mini-series, Generation Kill, from the creator of The Wire. Based on the non-fiction book by Evan Wright, it chronicles the experiences of a battalion of Recon Marines at the forefront of the US invasion of Iraq.
Alessandra Stanley reviews it in The New York Times:
'It takes a while, but two men in First ( Read more... ) -
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Trailer for 7-part HBO miniseries Generation Kill, based on Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright's book of the same name, a firsthand account of being embedded with the First Recon Marines during the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Written by The Wire veterans David Simon and Ed Burns, and directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Sherlock Holmes ( Read more... )
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