Tonight I went to a screening of The Good Shepherd (not to be confused with The Good German or The Good German Shepherd), which is supposedly the “untold true story of the birth of the CIA”. Assuming that’s the case, it was a rather drawn out, slow, and only somewhat interesting birth! Directed by Robert DeNiro (yes, him!), the film takes place over a 25-year timeframe, between 1936 and 1961. There are multiple flashbacks, but the film starts out with …