Tag Archives: Military

On Bertolt Brecht’s “The Interrogation of the Good”

The firing squads are purely aspirational, I assure you. Did I say aspirational? I meant metaphorical.

Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)

…for some reason, the director of this latest derivative of Herman Wouk’s “The Caine Mutiny” decided to rip the narrative from its critically important historical setting, copy/pasted it into a contemporary setting with only slipshod and superficial changes to dialogue, and filmed what is otherwise a shot-for-shot remake of an earlier–superior–adaptation of Wouk’s work.

The Military’s Free Expression Problem

Trigger Warning: this post is calculated to offend racists, misogynists, transphobes, homophobes, and all you other bigots out there. So don’t read it if you fit into one of those categories.