I’m loving LoveFilm
I’m tickled to discover how many great films are being added all the time to Lovefilm’s streaming service, like these new classics…
Good Night and Good Luck
watch it: “Edward R Murrow: TV is being used to deceive us – 1958”
It’s well worth reminding ourselves that what Murrow warned us about more than half a century ago — that “our mass media… television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us” — is still our reality today.
Michael Clayton (review)
You sell out and you sell out and you sell out until you can’t do it anymore. And that’s when things gets interesting.
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 8, ‘Bobby’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Emilio Estevez makes an enormous leap as a filmmaker, nay, as an artist, with this powerfully emotional tribute to the influence of Bobby Kennedy… and at the same time laments the absence today of his like in the public realm. As an American who … more…
Good Night, and Good Luck. (review)
Are you now, or have you ever been, a journalist? That’s what *Good Night, and Good Luck.* feels like, a smooth, sardonic smack in the face of today’s so-called newspeople, the cinematic equivalent of a withering glare and a disdainful roll of the eyes. Oh, this is an angry movie, calm and collected on the surface and seethed with reeled-in rage underneath. Yeah, it’s about Edward R. Murrow and how he took on McCarthy’s insanity, but what it’s really about is how we need a Murrow now and is there no one, not one supposed journalist, with the balls to take up Murrow’s mantle of integrity and honesty and fearlessness?
