Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
There's no narrative in war, just a brutal incomprehensibilty. Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha captures that madness, says David Hearst, who reported on the Chechen war Everyone who makes it back in one piece returns with a story. For many veterans of combat, it is an intensely private one.
Paul Haggis trumps other Iraq dramas by shouldering the burden of being unpatriotic, says Peter Bradshaw Whether or not it wins Oscars, this certainly marks a new and resonant low in relations between Hollywood and the outgoing presidential incumbent.
