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American Sniper

August 2023

  • In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Bradley Cooper appears in a scene from "American Sniper." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Keith Bernstein)

    From Titanic to American Sniper: the biggest lies in fact-based movies

    Controversy over debunked elements of Oscar-winning drama The Blind Side won’t be the first time a film based on a true story has taken liberties with the truth

March 2023

  • Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    From The Hurt Locker to American Sniper: how Hollywood tried to tackle the Iraq war

    Two decades on from the beginning of the war, a handful of films have tried various ways to show the conflict with audiences mostly choosing to stay away

September 2021

  • Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty

    Steve Rose on film
    Conflict of interest: why Hollywood failed to honestly address the ‘war on terror’

    Twenty years on, cinema is littered with failed attempts at helping people understand the aftermath of 9/11, from American Sniper to W

January 2018

  • Clint Eastwood

    Steve Rose on film
    In the line of dire: let's call time on Clint Eastwood's macho movies

    The Hollywood veteran’s stoic war films provide the same one-sided scenario every time, from American Sniper to 15:17 to Paris

April 2017

  • Clint Eastwood arrives at the LA Premiere of "Sully" at The Directors Guild of America Theater on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

    Clint Eastwood set to direct film about France train attack

    Actor plans to adapt book The 15:17 to Paris that retells how three American servicemen thwarted a terrorist attempt aboard a high-speed train in 2015

November 2016

  • In this image released by Paramount Pictures, David Oyelowo portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a scene from "Selma," a film based on the slain civil rights leader. The 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights marches in Selma and the hit movie that tells the story are expected to bring thousands of visitors to this  Alabama city. Visitors can still walk across the bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965 and visit the churches where they organized the protests. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Atsushi Nishijima)

    Selma is 100% historically accurate but Imitation Game just 41.4%, says study

  • Composite of the films American Sniper, Rendition, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Stop Loss

    Hollywood's war on terror: why audiences prefer gung-ho Iraq films

October 2016

  • Clint Eastwood is set to direct another real-life story following American Sniper and Sully.

    Clint Eastwood eyes true-life story of aid worker kidnapped by Somali pirates

    The film-maker considers directing another real-life tale, this time based on a memoir written by Jessica Buchanan, who was held hostage

May 2016

  • Chris Kyle<br>FILE In this April 6, 2012, photo, former Navy SEAL and author of the book “American Sniper” poses in Midlothian, Texas. Former Navy SEAL and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who won $1.8 million in a defamation lawsuit last year against the estate of the late Chris Kyle, says he won’t see the film partly because Kyle is no hero to him. He tells The Associated Press a hero must be honorable, and there’ no honor in lying. Lyle claimed in his “American Sniper” book that he punched out a man, whom he later identified as Ventura, at a California bar in 2006 for allegedly saying the SEALs "deserve to lose a few" in Iraq. Ventura said it never happened. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley, File)

    American Sniper hero Chris Kyle 'lied about medal tally'

  • Chris Kyle<br>FILE In this April 6, 2012, photo, former Navy SEAL and author of the book “American Sniper” poses in Midlothian, Texas. Former Navy SEAL and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who won $1.8 million in a defamation lawsuit last year against the estate of the late Chris Kyle, says he won’t see the film partly because Kyle is no hero to him. He tells The Associated Press a hero must be honorable, and there’ no honor in lying. Lyle claimed in his “American Sniper” book that he punched out a man, whom he later identified as Ventura, at a California bar in 2006 for allegedly saying the SEALs "deserve to lose a few" in Iraq. Ventura said it never happened. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley, File)

    American Sniper memorial will include trees from George W Bush's Texas ranch

March 2016

  • On manoeuvres ... a still from Lone Survivor.

    ‘Death to the infidels!’ Why it’s time to fix Hollywood’s problem with Muslims

    The US government wants the movie business to help counter Isis propaganda. But from shady sheikhs to detonator-happy terrorists, Hollywood’s pervasive Islamophobia is already a big part of the problem

February 2016

  • Zootopia

    Film blog
    Ad brake: are Zootropolis and Hail, Caesar! ushering in a new age of slow trailers?

    The snail-paced teaser for Disney’s new animation is the latest to merrily reject the usual frenetic framework. Does it mark a golden dawn of ponderous promos?

January 2016

  • Brad Pitt in The Big Short

    Box office analysis: global
    The Big Short offers highest rate of return for credit-crunch genre

  • 140x84 trailpic for Taya Kyle

    'American Sniper' widow: ‘The laws we create don’t stop gun violence’

October 2015

  • American diaper ... Bradley Cooper and the famous plastic baby,

    Bradley Cooper on American Sniper's fake baby: 'I couldn't believe it'

    The Oscar-nominated star of Clint Eastwood’s war drama addressed the controversial plastic baby used in the film, calling it ‘nuts’

September 2015

  • Jim DeFelice, who co-wrote Chris Kyle's book American Sniper.

    Iraq war translator memoir from American Sniper co-writer heading to cinemas

  • First class trip ... Taxi to Tehran

    Film blog
    The best films of 2015 so far – UK

August 2015

  • Miles Teller

    Miles Teller to join American Sniper writer's directorial debut

    Fantastic Four star circling Jason Hall’s drama Thank You for Your Service, based on Pulitzer-winner David Finkel’s 2013 book about soldiers with PTSD

July 2015

  • Jason Hall

    American Sniper scriptwriter Jason Hall to make debut as director

    Hall to direct Iraq war veterans post-traumatic stress disorder movie adapted from David Finkel’s non-fiction book

June 2015

  • A scene from Kajaki

    Film blog
    Different fights: what Kajaki and American Sniper say about army life

    They might be scheduled for DVD release practically simultaneously – but these British and American depictions of modern warfare are very different, says Kajaki producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin
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