Text Ticker: The Box-Office Gamble of ‘Body of Lies,’ Another Drama Set in the Mideast
I'm always a sucker for films about the present geopolitical moment. They are, to borrow the journalists' motto, the first draft of history. Regardless of whether they have any truth to them whatsoever.
This one is particularly interesting because it takes place in Amman, Jordan, where I'll be in about a week! [go!]

