Mud Songs

Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman all give excellent performances in Charlie Wilson’s War, a political comedy that tells the story of how the US got involved with Afghanistan by giving them rocket launchers to blow up Soviet helicopters. It’s more entertaining than laugh-out-loud funny, and it’s informative if, like me, you don’t know much about it, and it’s timely given the complete mess Afghanistan and the Middle East are today.