Green Zone

Fiery explosions rock Baghdad. A soldier tosses a water bottle to an onlooker as his convoy passes by. Looters rifle through a site reportedly harboring weapons of mass destruction. Director Paul Greengrass very quickly establishes the mood in Iraq, just days before President Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner flaunted an “end” to [...]

Red Cliff (Chi Bi)

John Woo’s Red Cliff is made in the style of Chinese war epics. Two rulers ally against the tyrannical Cao Cao (Fengyi Zhang) to free their lands. The story of peasants versus warlords is often recycled in popular mythology. So exhausted is this genre that Ang Lee, who popularized it in [...]