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Movies about the Media: Spotlight
February 22, 2016
IT’S been on the cinema circuit for a little while, now – but you may…
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Movies about the Media: Take your pickApril 2, 2015
FOR many of us, it’s going to be a long weekend, from tomorrow. And if...
Movies about the Media: The Rum DiaryJanuary 8, 2015
BEGINS the website, Wikipedia (here): “The Rum Diary is a 2011 American film based on...
Movies about the Media: Popcorn, at the ready!November 17, 2014
SOME of the greatest movies ever made have been about the media. So, get the...
Movies about the Media: All the President’s MenOctober 27, 2014
THE death last week of Ben Bradlee – the former editor of The Washington Post...
Movies about the Media: Frost/NixonSeptember 24, 2014
ANOTHER towering character performance by Michael Sheen. The actor – who was a triumph as...
Movies about the Media: Good Night, and Good Luck.August 26, 2014
DIRECTED by, co-written by and co-starring George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck. follows –...
Movies about the Media: SalvadorAugust 8, 2014
DESCRIBED as “genuinely radical cinema”, Salvador – says the blurb, here, on Amazon.co.uk – “recounts...
Movies about the Media: Under FireMay 27, 2014
“I DON’T take sides, I take pictures,” says the war photographer played by Nick Nolte...
Movies about the Media: A Thousand Times Good NightMay 9, 2014
IT’S being screened from today at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh, which describes A Thousand Times...
Movies about the Media: NetworkMarch 11, 2014
SAYS the website, Amazon, of the 1976 movie, Network, satirising TV networks and their chasing of...
Movies about the Media: Broadcast NewsFebruary 7, 2014
A TALE about inter-personal rivalries and attractions within a newsroom, as much as anything else,...
Movies about the Media: His Girl FridayJanuary 10, 2014
IT’S a plot that prompted not one but two remakes: when the newspaper editor tries...
Movies about the Media: Shattered GlassNovember 22, 2013
FOR all that there was a fact-checking culture at the US magazine, The New Republic,...
Movies about the Media: Ace in the HoleNovember 12, 2013
THE reporter who’ll do anything to get a story? Kirk Douglas plays – says the...
