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Movies

The Best Movies About Making Movies

April 4, 2022April 6, 2022 Samuel Porteous 5 Comments Billy Wilder, Boogie Nights, Brad Pitt, Bruce Lee, Day For Night, Hellzapoppin', Joel McCrea, John Malkovich, Olsen and Johnson, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Preston Sturges, Robert Altman, Ross Douthat, Shadow of the Vampire, Sullivan's Travels, Sunset Boulevard, The Player, Tim Robbins, Willem Dafoe, William Holden

Ross Douthat claims the movies are dead. The movies think he’s wrong.

Journalists

Movies About Journalists in the Line of Fire

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Neal Pollack 4 Comments A Mighty Heart, A Private War, Alfred Hitchcock, Angelina Jolie, Christian Bale, Daniel Pearl, Foreign Correspondent, Helena Bonham Carter, James Woods, Jamie Dornan, Jim Belushi, Joel McCrea, Linda Hunt, Live From Baghdad, Mel Gibson, Michael Keaton, Michael Winterbottom, Newsies, Nick Nolte, Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Rosamund Pike, Salvador, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Dillane, The Year of Living Dangerously, Under Fire, Welcome to Sarajevo, Woody Harrelson

During an unprecedented assault on the press in the United States, these situations look awfully familiar

Hard Times

Great Movies About Lightness During Hard Times

March 19, 2020March 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Charles Bronson, Hard Times, Hope and Glory, Joel McCrea, John Boorman, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Paper Moon, Preston Sturges, Ryan O'Neal, Sullivan's Travels, Tatum O'Neal

Don’t watch Contagion when you’re living it in real time