REVIEW: No Man’s Land [2021]

Cause they’re hungry. There’s a fundamental problem at the center of Conor Allyn‘s No Man’s Land: the tragic event sparking its introspective yet superficially transformative journey isn’t accidental. The fact that every synopsis and description of it uses that word only helps to prove that its story is being told from a privileged and biased perspective. Jackson Greer (Jake Allyn, who also co-wrote with David Barraza) isn’t cleaning his gun when he shoots and kills a Mexican boy trespassing on his father’s property. He didn’t think the gun was unloaded…

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REVIEW: No Man’s Land [2010]

“They can wait a little longer” For God and country. Pro aris et focis. It’s a well-known motto of families and military regimens, a toast to the two things to which we must always be loyal. Any soldier of war should know this and any who returns home is as a result deemed heroic. The brave few willing to sacrifice their lives for that of a nation deserve the accolades, support, and love of the men and women they protected and none are more important than family. Those unable to…

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