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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
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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-
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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
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