Netflix unleashes a new and improved (and deeply earnest) War Machine

It’s not hard to imagine that somewhere along the way, someone thought of pitching Netflix’s new sci-fi action thriller War Machine as “not your grandma’s war movie.” Any film that shifts from an extended army training sequence to an ominous alien asteroid barreling towards Earth certainly seems worthy of the distinction. But the best thing about War Machine is that it kind of is your grandma’s war movie. Though writer/director Patrick Hughes starts his story in the modern combat zone of Kandahar...