Journalists Evan Hill and Jack Crosbie review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.
Schlock and Awe
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Journalists Evan Hill and Jack Crosbie review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.
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Recent Episodes
December 15, 2025
Syriana (12/15/25)
A few weeks after 9/11, director Steven Soderbergh sent Stephen Gaghan, who’d written the screenplay for Soderbergh’s Traffic, a copy of former CIA officer Robert Baer’s memoir, “See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the C.I.A.’s War on Terrorism.” What followed was a tour d’horizon of the Middle East for Gaghan, led by Baer, and the movie Syriana, which Gaghan wrote and directed. Released in November 2005, Syriana was the first U.S. motion picture to grapple with the full complexity of the forces America was manipulating and contending with in the Middle East as the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan turned into occupations. There was oil, of course, and much money to be made, but ideology was also at work on all sides, from the hearing rooms of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (in Syriana, the Committee to Liberate Iran) to the ramshackle extremist religious schools of the Gulf. Even the most powerful nodes in these webs often had little idea what was really happening on the ground, or how their decisions might reshape the region. Like Traffic, Syriana makes the complexity of the situation its defining principle and cynicism its philosophical outlook. Viewed 20 years later, it nevertheless stands out for its attempt to explain and critique, a stance that GWOT films would come mostly to drop, falling into either the trite jingoism of American Sniper or the nihilistic realism of Warfare. Jack, Evan and Imran discuss Syriana’s many strong points — including Robert Elswit’s sneakily impressive cinematography — where it fits into the long lineage of conspiracy films, and just how Gaghan would end up going from this to Dolittle. Be sure to follow Imran: https://x.com/i_zzzzzz Evan: https://x.com/evanhill And Jack: https://x.com/jscros Produced by: https://x.com/notoriouslghtng
August 28, 2025
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (8/28/25)
Evan and Jack are joined by Aaron and Carlee from the Hit Factory podcast to discuss Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, the 2016 film that sent John Krasinski off on an action hero deployment from which he has yet to return. The story of a group of GRS security contractors hired to protect US diplomats and CIA operatives in Benghazi, two of whom were killed in an insurgent attack on September 11, 2012, Bay's 13 Hours is, like many of our films, a tall tale only partially based in the dirty truth. Jack, Evan, Aaron and Carlee look at how GWOT cinema refashions the warfighters of the post-9/11 era into modern day working class heroes, hard men doing hard jobs that few understand, struggling against a thickheaded bureaucracy and lacking union protection. Bay's talents shine in the economy of action and quick characterizations, but his purposeful lack of context elides the Punisher culture politics that arose from Obama-era deployments abroad and pervaded the real-world fallout from Benghazi. Be sure to follow Hit Factory here: https://x.com/HitFactoryPod
March 8, 2025
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (3/8/25)
Nate Bethea discusses Ang Lee's film *Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk* and its portrayal of surreal moments during the Global War on Terror, including a love triangle, in this interview episode.
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