Following the events of 9/11, the US began military conflict in Afghanistan that would end up stretching the better part of two decades. What was meant to be a quick, decisive response to the terrorist attack on American soil turned into a years-long battle that seemingly had no end in sight. However, the political issues surrounding that era take a backseat to the bravery shown by a group of troops in the upcoming film, “The Outpost.”

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As seen in the trailer for the film, “The Outpost” tells the incredible true story of the Battle of Kamdesh, the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009.

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Speaking to Collider at the Saturn Awards he reveals that while the blogosphere has been skeptical about how his film will stack up against the original, they will be in for a surprise: “…I keep reading blogs from people saying it’s going to be far less violent than the 1971 film [or that] the rape scene will be watered down.

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In the original film, Dustin Hoffman played the lead role of man who is forced to violently reckon with his own masculinity after his wife is brutally raped and he must defend his home against the perpetrators.

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Marsden plays the role made famous by Dustin Hoffman in the original — a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife (Susan George in the original) to her hometown, transposed from idyllic British countryside to Mississippi for the remake.

Bosworth will play his wife who postpones her L.A. actress aspirations to return home for her husband while Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory.

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Yes, that vile idea of a “Straw Dogs” remake is actually moving forward and we weep.

In what is yet another sad notch on the remake bedpost, James Marsden will star in a reimagining of the 1971 film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Both these posters from the Yari Film group are kind of great, but both of them make ’em look much stronger than they are.

Vera Farmiga and Kate Beckinsale are formidable in ‘Truth,’ especially the latter, but an Oscar nomination seems out of reach only because the film is so under-the-radar (Alan Alda and Matt Dillon display some pretty admirable turns as well).

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The synopsis: “Nothing But The Truth” is the story of Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale), a young reporter on the national desk of the Capitol Sun-Times, a major Washington, D.C.

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“Nothing But The Truth,” uses the Valerie Plame case – the now-famous CIA covert agent who was outed by the Washington Times. New York Times journalist Judith Miller had nothing to do with that story, but evidently was in possession of relevant evidence, but was subsequently jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury.

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