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#610 - The Greater Fool (Newsroom Part 10)
In the SEASON FINALE of our coverage of Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM, we find the show's many threads continuing, if not coalescing, in Episode 10 ("T…
1 year, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #609 - Gather Ye Rosebuds (Newsroom Part 9
What if presidential candidates had to submit to a REAL debate with REAL questions? What if they had to face the most hectoring moderator of all tie?…
1 year, 3 months ago
#608 - Freedom Dues
In THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973), a black man hired as a "token" by the CIA uses his training to start a black nationalist uprising. It couldn…
1 year, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #607 - The Passion of Nancy Grace (Newsroom Part 8)
Episode 8 of THE NEWSROOM ("The Blackout, Part 1: Tragedy Porn") finds Aaron Sorkin considering media ethics through lens of three 2011-era scandals …
1 year, 3 months ago
#606 - Sound of Freedom Fries
From immigration anxieties to "enhanced interrogation" to globalism to elite sex trafficking, TAKEN (2008) is a virtual dictionary of right-wing grie…
1 year, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #605 - Fahrenheit 5/11 (Newsroom Part 7)
We finally arrive at the legendary Bin Laden episode of THE NEWSROOM ("5/11") and discover that surrounding that iconic clip on the airplane is Aaron…
1 year, 4 months ago
#604 - Prestige Slop, Part 2
We return to Netflix's political miniseries ZERO DAY to find out what happened to Robert De Niro's Biden-ish ex-president... and discover something s…
1 year, 4 months ago
PREVIEW - #603 - Hail, Coens!
The Coen Brothers' BURN AFTER READING (2008) offers a jaundiced take on Washington and its institutions at the tail end of the Bush era. We were in a…
1 year, 4 months ago
#602 - Prestige Slop
Imagine someone fed the last 10-or-so years of American liberal politics into an A.I. machine and told it to create a Netflix miniseries. Friends... …
1 year, 4 months ago
PREVIEW - #601 - Machine Gun Preacher (w/ Alex Shephard)
What if the makers of the God's Not Dead movies attempted a violent action film that combined John Wick and Taken with a Christian message? Friends, …
1 year, 4 months ago