Critic: 'Generation Kill' Feels All Too Familiar
Jul 11th, 2008 · HBO's new miniseries Generation Kill starts this Sunday. TV critic Andrew Wallenstein says the newest dramatization of the war in Iraq has him looking for something else to watch.
Jul 11th, 2008 · HBO's new miniseries Generation Kill starts this Sunday. TV critic Andrew Wallenstein says the newest dramatization of the war in Iraq has him looking for something else to watch.
May 20th, 2008 · Kevin Spacey and Dennis Leary as Gore staffers Ron Klain and Michael Whouley, Tom Wilkinson as George W. Bush's strongman James Baker III, and Laura Dern as Florida's own electoral maven Katherine Harris, courtesy of Danny Strong, the writer of the new HBO movie, Recount.
May 16th, 2008 · A group of Marines in 2005 shot and killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha. Director Nick Broomfield discusses "The Battle for Haditha," a film that portrays the marines, an Iraqi family and a group of insurgents.
Apr 11th, 2008 · The BPP staff dramatizes the opening scene from the widely leaked script to Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic, W, which is set to start filming late this month.
Mar 28th, 2008 · The show joins Rome and Deadwood in a string of TV programs dramatizing important chapters in history. These programs don't always get the facts right, but does it really matter?
Dec 28th, 2007 · The final season of the HBO series The Wire, which dramatizes how real-world institutions and leaders repeatedly failed the people of Baltimore, gets underway Jan. 6. Creator David Simon is turning his critical eye on journalism, namely The Baltimore Sun.
Sep 8th, 2007 · An often-overlooked piano work of Beethoven has a starring role in a brand new play in Washington, D.C. Characters in 33 Variations include Beethoven himself, and a 21st century musicologist obsessed with the composer's "Diabelli Variations."
Aug 9th, 2007 · President Bush, ahead of a vacation to Kennebunkport, Me., has called a news conference for Thursday. The president was expected to face questions ranging from Iraq to the deteriorating state of bridges in the United States, dramatized by last week's collapse of the span over the Mississippi River.