It’s remarkable how many people can hold in their heads the contrary views that the government can’t do anything right, but the government can also engineer complex conspiracies.
In the movies, government conspiracies and secret projects abound, usually in massive underground lairs with shiny surfaces and walls bristling with high-tech equipment.
Such a government lab is the setting for Guillermo del Toro’s sea-monster movie “The Shape of Water,” which opens this Friday. Here are seven other movies about secret government projects.
Chinese Communists devise a fiendish plot to take down American democracy, brainwashing a U.