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The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris delves into the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib to discover the "truths" they contain and whatever culpabilities they might reveal.

Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.

Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.

Justice sidestepped: Lane McCotter, the Bush administration's overseer for rebuilding Iraq's prison system, previously resigned from his job as Utah's top corrections officer because he was under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for reports of abuse

Oscar Isaac takes the biggest gamble of his life

Tom Molloy's drawings are delicate but have the power to give you nightmares

Michael Tucker hears the voices calling him back to the war in Iraq

The war is over, but all these people keep dying anyway …

Austin author/activist Rahul Mahajan calls for increased effort to end the war

Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer

Drama about how Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes got fired from CBS

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

Two memoirs explore new parenthood and old childhoods with still-open wounds

Citizens' calendar, Feb. 11-18

What Torture Is; and the Coalition Goes Home

Captivity, wherein 24's Elisha Cuthbert is abducted and tortured, is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name; it's just soulless, hateful, and freakishly monotonous.

Documentary from the filmmakers who made Gunner Palace details the story of Yunis Abbas, an Iraqi journalist falsely detained for nine months at Abu Ghraib.

The Black Donnellys knock off Studio 60

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

Austinite Charlie Jackson was scheduled to be a part of the most recent Christian Peacemakers Team delegation but opted, at the behest of his family, against spending two consecutive Thanksgivings in Iraq

The single dullest war film of the past decade from the once promising director John Dahl.

A series of legal memos document the Bush administration's ongoing attempt to justify and legalize torture for the 'war on terror'

The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft

AFS Documentary Tour: The Oath

This show of political art by Robert Levers and Chris Reno is as timely as it gets

A clear-eyed history of the greatest living journalist from Texas

Inside the corporate culture that lead to two deadly crashes

The images of war in Goya's prints are brutal and immediate, and it is for this reason that we must look at them

See No Evil 2, The Houses October Built, and LFO

Remember the last war, or repeat it