The Post (2017)
Set in Washington DC in 1971, The Post covers the local newspaper, the Washington Post, who end up the recipients of what would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers, which is a top-secret government...
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Spotlight (2015)
In 2001, the Boston Globe’s new editor-in-chief is Marty Baron (Schreiber, Pawn Sacrifice), a Jewish media exec coming in from Miami to take over the reins of a paper that has always catered to a...
Man of Steel (2013)
Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen), Dark Knight trilogy producer Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper) return Superman on the big screen, and that’s not an easy task to do for a...
I Love Trouble (1994)
Nick Nolte stars as Peter Brackett, Chicago’s most popular reporter, and eligible bachelor. Brackett has been coasting for years off of his own image and reputation, regurgitating his older material and trying to pass...
Runaway Bride (1999)
A New York columnist (Gere, The Jackal) hears a scoop about a woman (Roberts, Notting Hill) who ditched several husbands on the altar of her wedding. He writes about her without properly researching the stories and ends up...
All the President’s Men (1976)
All the President’s Men is the well-known dramatic account about the cracking of the Watergate scandal and the reporters who scooped it, Woodward (Redford, Three Days of the Condor) and Bernstein (Hoffman, Agatha) of the Washington Post. What started...
Citizen Kane (1941)
The last word uttered by media magnate and multimillionaire tycoon, Charles Foster Kane (Welles, Touch of Evil), was “rosebud”. During preparations for a newsreel story on Kane’s life, the producers determine that they need to...
Fletch (1985)
Fletch is based on a 1974 novel from Harvard-educated author Gregory McDonald, who had just left his job working as a journalist for”The Boston Globe” to write his book based somewhat on his and...