Directors utilize big names to get political points across, but risk alienating audiences
There's a new film genre making its way to theaters this fall: the Iraq War-themed movie. And though these features are fictionalized, it's no accident that their releases correspond with Americans' growing disenchantment with US politics in Iraq - and the upcoming presidential election.
Unlike their documentary predecessors, whose appeal was, for the most part, limited to members of the choir, these "inspired by" films by big-name directors are ...