Central Intelligence Agency

...11) WAR, INC. - John Cusack stars in this political thriller as a CIA hit man hired to take out a Middle Eastern oil minister whose plans are threatening the business dealings of a former U.S. vice president (Dan Aykroyd). (9 p.m.,...

In this article: Jim Carrey, Alex Kingston, Suicide, Joseph Fiennes, CIA, War, Inc., Amy Poehler, and Nick Offerman

...John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet. Part three at last resolves questions about the amnesiac spy's past, from who he is and why the CIA wants him dead to whether he's a natural born killer. But such is the intricacy and rush of the...

In this article: Philippe Petit, John Cusack, Vincent Price, Oscar, Avon Lady, Vacancy, Robin Williams, George Clooney, Tommy Lee Jones, and 3 Days Of The Condor

...Green Zone. Here American corporations are so entrenched that Hauser reaches the secret bunker of the Viceroy (a Tamerlane puppet) through a Popeye's Fried Chicken store. A CIA assassin (John Cusack) heads for the Middle East in War, Inc.

In this article: Dick Cheney, CIA, War, Inc., John Cusack, Hot sauce, Sun-Times, Popeye's Fried Chicken, and Halliburton

...family, and War, Inc. gives itself over to incoherence in a slapstick climax where Cusack discovers that The Viceroy is actually his old CIA handler (Ben Kingsley) in a wheelchair. The performances are divided neatly between sleepy...

In this article: War, Inc., John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Iraq War, Ben Kingsley, Alec Baldwin, Dr. Strangelove, Dick Cheney, and Britney Spears

...Inc." a sympathetic study in unsustainable contradictions. A former CIA killer turned lone-wolf hit man following a tragic loss, Cusack's Brand Hauser is a samurailike assassin. He takes out targets that irritate Tamerlane, a...

In this article: War, Inc, John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joshua Seftel, Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Stanley Kubrick, Dan Aykroyd, and U.S.

...anti-Bush, Strangelove-wannabe genre. John Cusack reprises his Grosse Point Blank role in all but name as Hauser, a freelancing ex-CIA assassin hired by the former U.S. vice president (Dan Aykroyd in a Cheney skit) to ice an uncooperative...

In this article: War, Inc., John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Jeremy Pikser, Joshua Seftel, Mark Leyner, Ben Kingsley, John McLaughlin, and Dan Aykroyd

...a deadly political satire designed to show the apocalyptic aftermath of George Bush, the clueless Mr. Cusack plays Brand Hauser, a former C.I.A. operative turned terminator-cum-showbiz-mercenary; he works for Tamerlane, a corrupt corporation...

In this article: John Cusack, War, Inc., The New York Observer, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Hilary Duff, U.S., E mail, and Academy Award

In Turaqistan -- where his cover is trade-show manager -- he meets a journalist (Tomei), a Middle Eastern singing star (Duff) and an old CIA hand (Kingsley), getting entangled in the intersection between politics, capitalism and pop...

In this article: John Cusack, War, Inc, Joshua Seftel, Hilary Duff, Sideways, Iraq, Iraq War, Naomi Klein, Ben Kingsley, and Marisa Tomei

...has long been cozy with the mercenary firm. Jeremy Scahill: The notorious mercenary firm is now a one-stop shop for security outsourcing, offering CIA-like services to Fortune 500 companies. Jeremy Scahill: John Cusack's War, Inc. takes...

In this article: Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill, United States, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Latin America, and CIA