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Denis Leary said authenticity to the military is as important as being funny on his new show Going Dutch. Leary plays Army Col. Patrick Quinn, who gets re-assigned to a base in the Netherlands after ranting against the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He and the base’s soldiers engage in comic hijinx, but they’re never making fun of the Army.

Billy Bragg has marked former Labour politician Tony Benn’s would-be 100th birthday by posing his “five questions to ask the powerful” to Elon Musk.Posting on his Facebook page, the folk musician listed five questions to Elon Musk – which were originally coined by politician and left-wing campaigner Benn.“Whenever I see Elon Musk gloating about how he’s laying waste to ‘woke’ government departments, sacking hundreds of thousands of people on a whim, I think of Tony Benn’s five questions to ask the powerful,” he wrote.The questions are: what power have you got; where did you get it from; in whose interest do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and how can we get rid of you?Read Bragg’s full post directed to Musk below:Whenever I see Elon Musk gloating about how he's laying waste to 'woke' government departments, sacking hundreds of…Posted by Billy Bragg on Thursday, April 3, 2025Tony Benn was a Labour Party politician who, as per The Guardian, “went from being ‘the most dangerous man in Britain’ to a national radical treasure”. He died aged 88 in 2014.He became known for being an instrumental part in creating a left wing of the Labour Party in the 1980s, and then later was praised for his campaign against the invasion of Iraq, addressing the UK’s biggest ever demonstration during the Stop the War rally of 2003.At the time of his death, the then Labour leader Ed Miliband said: “Tony Benn spoke his mind and spoke up for his values.

EXCLUSIVE: House of Gods director Fadia Abboud is directing a “boundary pushing” sci-fi feature about under-represented communities in Australia.

Carolyn Giardina At least a dozen 2025 movies will be mastered for the newly-launched HDR by Barco laser projectors, the cinema tech developer revealed at CinemaCon. They include Universal’s “How to Train Your Dragon,” which opens June 13 and received an enthusiastic reception when it premiered Wednesday at the theater owners confab. In addition to dragons, Universal is bringing dinosaurs to the format.

Naman Ramachandran A harrowing 2006 Navy SEAL mission in Ramadi, Iraq, comes to brutally authentic life in “Warfare,” the latest collaboration between “Civil War” director Alex Garland and military veteran Ray Mendoza. At Tuesday’s U.K. premiere, the filmmakers revealed how their refusal to moralize about combat emerged from a shared commitment to truth-telling in a medium often prone to seduction.

Will Poulter is hitting the red carpet with the Warfare cast for another premiere!

A24′s new movie Warfare is stacked with a cast of Hollywood’s hottest rising actors and they all stepped out for the L.A. premiere.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic War movies turn a lot of us into armchair warriors. We’ve seen the great ones, like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Full Metal Jacket” and “Apocalypse Now” and “The Hurt Locker” and “Platoon,” and every one of those films is so vivid and experiential that we may get swept up in the illusion that we now understand something essential about war. But if you’ve ever been close to someone who’s been in a war, the first thing you know is that you know nothing about it.

The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers “the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater.” Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami’s statement was part of a larger rant against what he saw as a certain scourge in Western filmmaking, that of the blockbuster which takes its audience “hostage,” overwhelming with bombastic aestheticism that nails you to your seat but leaves you feeling empty.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Thanks to projects like this month’s “The Electric State,” Netflix’s most expensive movie ever, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have gained a reputation as one of the most profligate filmmakers in the industry. In truth, the full output of their company, AGBO, covers a much wider spectrum of spending, with the Russos partnering with streamers, indie studios and Marvel alums on an array of splashy, action-oriented productions.

Carolyn Giardina The first permanent theater auditoriums to feature Barco‘s new premium HDR laser projectors – Cinepolis Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema New Mission in San Francisco – have debuted with the release of Paramount’s “Novocaine.” The Pico Rivera site is also the first Cinepolis MACRO XE premium auditorium in the U.S. As Barco rolls out it new projectors, upcoming films mastered for the system will include David Ayer-helmed thriller “A Working Man” for Amazon MGM Studios (March 28); game-to-film adaptation “A Minecraft Movie” from Legendary, Warner Bros.

Ethan Shanfeld A24‘s “Warfare” is launching an Imax run with early screenings beginning April 9. The film, written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and “Civil War” helmer Alex Garland, opens wide on April 11.

It’s hard to believe now but before taking 12 long years to follow 1987’s Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the famously meticulous Stanley Kubrick was comparatively prolific — in the ’60s alone he released four of his 13 features. In these days of instant gratification, a director taking longer than three years is either deemed to be M.I.A. or about to pop up with a secret film made entirely under the radar (“Don’t believe everything you read on the net,” says Nicolas Winding Refn on that score). But absence does make the heart grow fonder, and these five directors can expect a warm welcome in 2025.

It seems only right that a crowd of veterans were the first to see Warfare, U.S. Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza’s feature directorial debut, co-written and co-directed with Alex Garland.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A year after Alex Garland stirred the American political pot with his dystopian drama “Civil War,” the British director introduced a different kind of combat movie to an audience of U.S. veterans on Wednesday night in Hollywood. A real-time account of a harrowing 2006 mission in Iraq, the film from Garland and co-director Ray Mendoza screened for the first time at the American Legion Post 43 – a legendary VA house on Highland Ave.

Warfare hits theaters on April 11, and we now have a first look.

My Dead Friend Zoe, directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes and co-written with A.J. Bermudez, is more than just your average military-based drama. Using his own personal experience during and after serving in the Army as a Bronze Star combat veteran, Hausmann-Stokes manages to interweave a relatable story that deals with complex themes of trauma, self-sabotage and maintaining a willfulness for life and love through human connection. “Veterans are more than our stereotype,” the filmmaker told Deadline. “We veterans don’t own PTSD. Anybody can experience hard stuff. This film is not [just] for veterans. It’s about veterans, but it’s for everybody.” 

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor known for his ability to anchor hours of breaking news coverage without taking a break, is finally ready for a breather. The NBC News veteran plans to step away in early summer from his anchor duties on “NBC Nightly News,” which he has held since 2015.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Jane Fonda will receive the William O. Douglas Award for her commitment to social causes at Public Counsel‘s annual gala dinner on Feb. 27 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles.

MPs are likely to get a vote before any British troops are sent to Ukraine, a Labour Cabinet minister has said.

BBC Breakfast's weather presenter, Simon King, was left a tad embarrassed this Saturday (February 15) when he accidentally interrupted the live show.