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May 10, 2017 The Skanner Page 7 Arts & Entertainment FILM REVIEW: Military Misfits Try for Redemption in ‘Black Site Delta’ Anti-Trump Late Night Jokes Coming at a Blistering Pace Trump is the most joked-about president in 25 years by Kam Williams For The Skanner News PHOTO BY RICHARD SHOTWELL/INVISION/AP, FILE “B In this Aug. 10, 2015, file photo, Stephen Colbert participates in “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” segment of the CBS Summer TCA Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. Colbert says he has no regrets about insulting President Donald Trump in a monologue that included a crude sexual reference and prompted calls to fire him and boycott “Late Show” advertisers. In his Wednesday, May 3, 2017, monologue, Colbert says he would change “a few words that were cruder than they needed to be” but he’d still do it again. By David Bauder AP Television Writer NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert, whose crude ref- erence to Donald Trump angered some of the pres- ident’s supporters last week, has lobbed zingers at him at the blistering “ ing Vladimir Putin’s c--- holster.” Colbert said he was up- set at Trump for insult- ing CBS “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson. It was one of 337 Trump jokes that Colbert has made since the pres- ident’s inauguration in ‘The polarization of politics has migrated into the polar- ization of late-night humor’ pace of 3.37 a day during the chief executive’s first 100 days in office. Trump is on pace to be the most joked-about president in late-night tele- vision in at least 25 years, the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Ma- son University said Thursday. Colbert, on his show We d n e s d a y, discussed the fallout from a Trump joke two days earlier that prompted calls to fire him and boycott the CBS “Late Show” adver- tisers. He said he didn’t re- gret insulting the president, but that “I would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be.” He made a reference to the male anat- omy when he said of Trump Monday: “The only thing your mouth is good for is be- January, the study said. Trevor Noah of Come- dy Central’s “The Daily Show” made 315 Trump jokes in the same peri- od of time, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon unleashed 231 and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel 177. The Trump-battering has paid off handsome- ly for Colbert and CBS. The “Late Show” eclipsed Fallon’s “Tonight” show in the ratings shortly after Trump’s inaugura- tion and has now won 13 weeks straight. Last week CBS averaged 2.74 mil- lion viewers to Fallon’s 2.68 million, the Nielsen company said. Nielsen’s preliminary ratings from the na- See LATE-NIGHT on page 11 lack Site Del- ta” is a mi- c ro - b u d g e t production most reminiscent of “The Dirty Dozen” (1967). Like that clas- sic action flick, the ac- tion-oriented tale of redemption revolves around the patriotic exploits of a rag-tag team of convicts. However, given the film’s financial constraints, it features a team of 6 instead of 12 protagonists. They are led by Jake (Cam Gigandet), a vet suf- fering from PTSD who, at the point of departure, lands in a military prison following a bar fight. He soon discov- ers that the place doubles as a black site kept off the radar of the general public. His fellow inmates are other dis- graced soldiers, such as Simms (Benja- min Charles Watson), a former drone pilot incarcerated for refusing to drop a bomb on a terrorist at a child’s birthday party full of kids. Truth be told, the facility has been hijacked to secretly serve as the command center for a treasonous operation employing a weapon of mass destruction. Apparently, one Colonel Irving (Mi- chael Dale) has gone rogue and is now doing the bidding of an Afghan war- Scene from ‘Black Site Delta’ lord named Khan (Arash Mokhtar). Once that fact comes to light, Jake recruits Simms, his love interest Vasquez (Teri Reeves), and a few oth- er cellmates with the hope that their heroics might lead to full pardons. What ensues is a spectacular splatter- fest worthy of John Woo or Sam Peck- inpah. Thus unfolds “Black Site Delta,” a gratuitous snuff flick laced with lots of gory kill shots. The movie marks the directorial debut of Jesse Gus- tafson who does a decent enough job to satiate the bloodlust of fans of the high body-count genre. A “Dirty Half-Dozen” tailor-made for folks who appreciate scene after scene of incessant slaughter. Good HH Unrated To see a trailer for Black Site Delta, visit TheSkanner.com.
