Schlock and Awe

Journalists @evanhill and @jscros review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

We're back with special guest @i_zzzzzz! Talking SYRIANA, the cynical, multi-narrative, Clooney Oscar-winning conspiracy thriller from 2005, an early entry in the GWOT canon that arguably remains unmatched.

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[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

marinated on the singular talents of Robert Elswit and the shit-always-rolls-downhill anomie of George Clooney's beleaguered CIA agent stalking the DMV.

coming soon on @schlockawepod.

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[Evan Hill @evanhill]

podding this with @i_zzzzzz & @jscros today. is it... the only good GWOT film?

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

We're back with a banger!

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a story of America's true working-class heroes — GRS security contractors with Punisher patches.

With @notoriouslghtng & @deepimpactcrier of @HitFactoryPod!

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[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

Recorded a banger with @HitFactoryPod yesterday. Let's just say it

Brilliantly
Elucidates
Numerous
Glaring
Hypocrisies
About
Zealous
Imperialism

Coming soon...

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

We're back! @evanhill and @jscros are joined by Nate Bethea of @trashfuturepod & What a Way to Die to discuss Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee's weird, uncanny film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq to America for a propaganda tour: https://t.co/quj3LCmPyX

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

Get out there soldier and like and subscribe!

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The boys are back! We've got a new banger with @Seamus_Malek on the pod to discuss Lone Survivor, Peter Berg's 2013 suffer fest chronicling an extremely failed 2005 Navy SEAL raid in Afghanistan. Berg asks: What if the GWOT was just extreme sports? https://t.co/PgwkiHv4sb

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

It's like they're making movies just for us : )
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[Gerard Butler @GerardButler]

400 miles. 30 hours. A race for survival. Check out the trailer for my new movie KANDAHAR, coming to theaters MAY 26. #KandaharMovie

@KandaharMovie

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

(h/t @AthertonKD)

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

General Dynamics is sponsoring an opera about a drone pilot at the Kennedy Center. You can't make this shit up. https://t.co/c8IH0rmWjE

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

Episode 2: ZERO DARK THIRTY w/ special guest @attackerman.

@evanhill, @jscros and Spencer break down the War on Terror's biggest critical success ask whether Kathryn Bigelow's gritty torturefest serves a huge lie.

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[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

🚨new episode coming soon🚨

@evanhill & @jscros tackle the the most controversial film of the war on terror: ZERO DARK THIRTY.

with special guest @attackerman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the critically acclaimed REIGN OF TERROR.

[Gumbo Z’Herbs Jones @bradbramish]

I was literally just thinking about how post 9/11 operator porn bullshit media is my guilty pleasure. God gave me this podcast for Christmas

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

@jscros @evanhill Special thanks to @jgrebes for the incredible art, @AthertonKD for the incredible pun, and @robrousseau for the kickass intro music on direction that was just "uhhh... make it more Top Gun?"

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

EPISODE ONE: AMERICAN SNIPER

@jscros & @evanhill review Clint Eastwood's heavily fictionalized adaptation of the mythological autobiography of Chris Kyle, a Western-style fable that dehumanizes Iraqis and deliberately mischaracterizes the Iraq War

https://t.co/DNJvUaWYJt

[Schlock and Awe @schlockawepod]

@jscros @evanhill In this episode, we talk about the Iraq war's greatest legend -- and greatest bullshit artist, and investigate just how far Clint Eastwood can crank the racism dial and still get Oscar nominations. https://t.co/yGoLJrrLbA

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

Excited to drop this little project with @jscros: Schlock and Awe (@schlockawepod) a podcast reviewing the troubled cinematic canon of the War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 war movie.

In episode one we tackle the big bad: American Sniper https://t.co/XsX1pTgyZ4

[Jack Crosbie @jscros]

A couple years ago while backpacking @evanhill and I watched an incredibly bad Afghanistan movie on my tiny phone screen & thought damn, this should be a podcast: war movies for the 9/11 generation. Well here it is: @schlockawepod Ep. 1: AMERICAN SNIPER https://t.co/TnDUyvu8xm