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We meet the rifle-toting title character (Minie), an African child soldier, during a harrowing opening sequence in which he and his barely pubescent troops destroy a small village. They speak in ...

Monrovia — The award-winning film on child soldiers, "Johnny Mad Dog" filmed in Liberia is expected to be screened today at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The movie was filmed ...

Sauvaire’s drama about a corrupt group of child soldiers fighting in an unnamed African country has City of God aspirations, but never really finds a story of its own, despite many dynamic ...

Fifteen-year-old Johnny Mad Dog (Christophe Minie) commands a remorseless teenage death squad whose members—when not actively killing, raping, and pillaging—are perpetually psyching each other ...

A fearsome plunge into the world of child soldiers in present-day West Africa, "Johnny Mad Dog" initially repulses with its brutalizing depictions of civil-war carnage. A fearsome plunge into the ...