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Luminous Animal

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6. Variety did a great review...

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Tue Jan 29, 2013, 03:28 PM

Jan 2013

Filed from the frontlines of the war on terror, documentarian Richard Rowley's astonishingly hard-hitting "Dirty Wars" renders the investigative work of journalist Jeremy Scahill in the form of a '70s-style conspiracy thriller. A reporter for the Nation, Scahill follows a blood-strewn trail from a remote corner of Afghanistan, where covert night raids have claimed the lives of innocents, to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), a shadowy outfit empowered by the current White House to assassinate those on an ever-expanding "kill list," including at least one American. This jaw-dropping, persuasively researched pic has the power to pry open government lockboxes

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117949103/

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Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill's antidote to Zero Dark Thirty's heroic narrative [View all] rug Jan 2013 OP

I am looking forward to seeing this. Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #1

Me too. Keep checking the link see when screenings are scheduled near you. rug Jan 2013 #2

Ty for the link /nt think Jan 2013 #4

Kick. Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #7

Here's Amy's interview with Jeremy Scahill & Rick Rowley at the Sundance Film Festival progressoid Jan 2013 #3

Thanks! rug Jan 2013 #5

Variety did a great review... Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #6