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When “Revisionism” About Islam’s Origins Goes Wrong
The Strange Last Half-Hour of Dan Gibson’s ‘The Sacred City’ (2016).
Jun 26 • 
Kyle Orton
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Where Did Islam Come From?
Assessing the historical claims and arguments in ‘The Sacred City’ (2016), by Dan Gibson
Jun 11 • 
Kyle Orton
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Film Review: ‘Civil War’ (2024)
Messaging ambiguity past a certain point in a film is just an underdeveloped script.
Jun 2, 2024 • 
Kyle Orton
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Remembering Entebbe: When Israel Fought Back Against the Soviet “Anti-Zionist” War
Film Review of ‘Raid on Entebbe’ (1977)
Feb 24, 2024 • 
Kyle Orton
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When the Soviets Turned Australian Intelligence Inside Out
The ABC’s Four Corners program reveals that in the late 1970s the Soviets recruited a mole at the top of ASIO counter-intelligence. In spy war terms…
Jun 25, 2023 • 
Kyle Orton
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The Long Struggle To Reveal Stalin’s Terror-Famine in Ukraine
Film Review: ‘Mr. Jones’ (2019)
Apr 28, 2023 • 
Kyle Orton
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Film Review: ‘Halloween Ends’
Be aware: this review contains spoilers
Oct 31, 2022 • 
Kyle Orton
Review: “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered”
Reconsidering a forty-year-old serial killer case.
Apr 5, 2022 • 
Kyle Orton
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Film Review: ‘Snowden’ (2016)
Another Oliver Stone movie, another round of Russian propaganda.
Nov 29, 2016 • 
Kyle Orton
Film Review: ‘Citizenfour’ (2014)
An unintentionally revealing biopic about Edward Snowden.
Feb 6, 2015 • 
Kyle Orton
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