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What Does ‘Network’ Have To Tell Us About Outrage, 50 Years On

July 24, 2026July 20, 2026 Matt Hanson 0 Comments 1976 films, Arthur Jensen, Beatrice Straight, broadcast journalism, capitalism, classic cinema, corporate media, Criterion Collection, Diana Christensen, Faye Dunaway, film criticism, globalization, Howard Beale, Jamelle Bouie, JD Vance, Journalism, Max Schumacher, media criticism, Ned Beatty, neoliberalism, Network, news media, Oscar winners, Paddy Chayefsky, PBS NewsHour, Peter Finch, ratings, Richard Nixon, Robert Duvall, sensationalism, Sidney Lumet, Television, The Guardian, UBS, Watergate, William Holden

We’re still ‘mad as hell’ but now everyone is yelling into the ether

Featured Stories FILM

America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

Streaming TELEVISION

‘Star City’ Depicts the Space Race as Run by the Evil Empire

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Agnes O'Casey, alternate history, Anna Maxwell Martin, Apple TV, Chernobyl, Cold War, For All Mankind, Joe Barton, KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, NASA, Rhys Ifans, Richard Nixon, science fiction, Sergei Korolev, Soviet Union, space exploration, space race, spy thriller, Star City, Television, TV review, Venera program, Venus mission, Yuri Gagarin

‘For All Mankind’ Gets the ‘Chernobyl’ Treatment

Steven Spielberg’s Even Closer Encounters Get Disclosed

June 12, 2026June 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 2026 movies, alien contact, alien documentaries, Alien Invasion, alien technology, blockbuster cinema, CGI creatures, cinema reviews, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Colin Firth, Colin Firth films, Colman Domingo, conspiracy thrillers, corporate conspiracies, David Koepp, Disclosure Day, Emily Blunt, Emily Blunt movies, ESP, extraterrestrials, film criticism, first contact stories, government conspiracies, Hollywood blockbusters, Josh O'Connor, Kansas City, movie review, North Korea, paranormal fiction, pop culture criticism, Prime movie reviews, Richard Nixon, Roswell, Roswell conspiracy, science fiction cinema, science fiction films, science fiction thrillers, Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg films, summer movies, telepathy, UFO culture, ufology, UFOs, World War III anxieties

Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, and Colin Firth run around and meet some aliens

Featured Stories TELEVISION

‘Duster’: Fast, Funky, Fun

July 7, 2025July 8, 2025 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments arizona, Corbin Bernsen, duster, Greg Grunberg, HBO Max, Howard Hughes, JJ Abrams, Josh Holloway, LaToya Morgan, Lost, Max, Patrick Warburton, Phoenix, Plymouth Duster, Rachel Hilson, Richard Nixon

JJ Abrams’ first TV show in a decade reaches its first season finale on Max

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon

‘The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon’

August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Heath Hardage Lee, Pat Nixon, Richard Nixon, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Thomas Mallon, Watergate

An engaging biography that’s overly concerned with protecting a former First Lady’s reputation

18 1/2

He was Such a Crook

June 3, 2022 William Schwartz 1 Comment 18 1/2, John Magaro, Richard Nixon, Willa Fitzgerald

’18 1/2′, a low-budget political comedy about the Nixon White House tapes

Nixon

How Nixon Brought Himself Down

June 21, 2021March 15, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman, King Richard, Michael Dobbs, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, Watergate

New book retells Watergate story based on transcripts of damning White House recordings

Politics TELEVISION

It’s Tricky Tricky Tricky

April 23, 2019 Ross Warner 0 Comments Abuse Of Power, CNN, Mueller Report, Nixonland, Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick, Watergate

CNN Doc Reminds Us Of How Far We Haven’t Come Since Nixon

Father Ted

DOCUMENTARY FILM

New Doc ‘Hesburgh’ Offers Searing Look at a Great American Leader

November 12, 2018November 23, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Ann Landers, Bobby Kennedy, Christine O'Malley, Dr. Martin Luther King, Father Ted, J. Edgar Hoover, Jerry Barca, John Ehrlichman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nick Andert, Patrick Creadon, Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon, Robert Sam Anson, Theodore Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame, Vietnamese National Liberation Front, William Neal

Father Ted Battled for Civil Rights, Built Notre Dame, Advised Presidents (and Was a Decent Human Being)

Featured Stories

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Throw a Champagne Supernova on the Wonderwall

September 19, 2026September 22, 2026 Neal Pollack 0

The Gallagher Brothers ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’

BOOKS Featured Stories SF

‘Exit Party’ Provides Parties but Surprisingly Little Exit

September 18, 2026September 22, 2026 Dan Friedman 0

Featured Stories FILM SF

Korea’s Most Expensive Movie Ever Opens a Pandora’s Box

September 17, 2026September 22, 2026 Neal Pollack 0

DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM

The BFG Raygun Interview

September 11, 2026September 14, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0

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