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Screen Test: Catch-22 and The Hot Zone are not as good as the books they are based on
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SINGAPORE - Few would argue that Catch-22, Joseph Heller's 1961 novel, was a powerful piece of satire.
But its power lay in a very specific critique of the circular and corrupting logic of war, so the question to ask of any modern retelling is: How is this relevant today?
