Paul Davis On Crime: Mark Wahlberg

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Monday, June 26, 2017

Patriots Day: A Film That Dramatizes The Boston Marathon Bombing

My wife and I watched Patriots Day on Comcast Demand TV tonight.

The film, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, who was also the film's producer, is about the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

Patriots Day is a powerful film with a fine cast that includes John Goodman and Kevin Bacon.

The film does a good job of showing us the horror of the bombing, the suffering of the victims and the bravery of the police and the medical people who quickly responded. They didn't know if there were more bombs set to explode after the two bombs went off, but they charged in and did their jobs anyway.

Peter Berg is a good director of action films about military people and he handles the police action well in this film.

The film makes one angry at the heartless terrorists, who killed an eight-year-old boy and others, and the film makes one proud to be an American.

You can read a Hollywood Reporter piece on the film, the real people involved in the bombing and aftermath, and the actors who portrayed them via the below link:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/patriots-day-14-films-stars-real-life-inspirations-963172/item/patriots-day-counterparts-mark-wahlberg-tommy-saunders-963181

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

'Lone Survivor' Is A Suberb Portrayal Of The Sacrifice, Ability And Bravery of the U.S. Navy SEALs

I don't often go to the theater to see films, as I dislike crowds and the distractions of rude film viewers. I much prefer to wait a year or so and watch films on cable TV in the privacy of my home.

But yesterday I went to an early viewing of Lone Survivor with my stepson.

I thought that director Peter Berg, actor and producer Mark Wahlberg, and the rest of the cast and crew did a fine job of bringing Marcus Luttrell's true story of Navy SEALs in combat in Afghanistan to the big screen.

You can read my review of Marcus Luttrell's book, which appeared in Counterterrorism magazine, via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/12/a-look-back-at-former-navy-seal-marcus.html

Thursday, August 1, 2013

First 'Lone Survivor' Trailor Shows Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch On Navy SEAL Mission Gone Wrong

Rebecca Ford at the Hollywood Reporter offers a piece on the upcoming film Lone Survivor, which is based on the true story of a U.S. Navy SEAL mission in Afghanistan.

The first trailer for Peter Berg's Lone Survivor has debuted, showing off a strong brotherhood among soldiers, some breathtaking landscape and a lot of manly beards.

The action drama, written and directed by Berg, stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Eric Bana, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster as a group of Navy SEALs that attempts to capture or kill a notorious Taliban leader. The film is based on the book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell.

You can read the rest of the story and watch the film trailor via the below link:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/first-lone-survivor-trailer-shows-597262

You can also read my review of Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor, which apeared in Counterterrorism magazine, via the below link:

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Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and Counterterrorism magazine, and he writes the magazine's online 'Threatcon' column. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. His crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer. He also worked part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist during this time. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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