Journalism

‘The Paper’ is worth a subscription as it nails modern journalism

“The Paper” (Peacock) isn’t breaking new ground with style: It’s precisely like “The Office” (2005-13), from which it spins off. But it’s also so precisely

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‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ makes true crime chillingly personal

“Murdaugh: Death in the Family” (Wednesdays, Hulu) is the very definition of a mystery where you peel back layers. It can be enjoyed either by

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‘Ace in the Hole’ (1951) plays a winning hand of satire

“Ace in the Hole” (1951) is a kind of silly, rather entertaining, certainly unusual piece in Billy Wilder’s catalog. Driven by a muscular, over-the-top performance

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Stop the presses: ‘The Paper’ (1994) is a rip-roaring journalism movie

If you’re on a bender of newspaper movies, “The Paper” (1994) would make a good cleanser between “All the President’s Men” (1976) and “Spotlight” (2015).

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‘Shining Girls’ (2022): Make it make sense

Imagine Christopher Lloyd’s chalkboard-charted time-travel from “Back to the Future” cleanly plotted out on a sheet of paper. Now imagine that paper folded in half,

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‘All the President’s Men’ (1976) grandly caps Pakula’s ‘paranoia trilogy’

The cycle of life imitating art imitating life comes full circle for director Alan J. Pakula with the capper to his thematic “paranoia trilogy,” “All

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‘The Parallax View’ (1974) a timelessly chilling conspiracy noir

Alan J. Pakula is arguably the most influential director in the second wave of noir in film history – Seventies neo-noir. The original wave dominated

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Ricci is devastatingly raw and true in ‘Prozac Nation’ (2001)

Despite being an amazing film, “Prozac Nation” (2001) just couldn’t fit in with normal movies. It had a film festival premiere in 2001 but the

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‘Alaska Daily’ puts spotlight on modern investigative reporting 

The newsroom of the Alaska Daily in “Alaska Daily” (Thursdays, ABC) includes a screen showing the website’s current traffic and top stories. Although we do

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Preston, Spezi probe ‘Monster of Florence’ (2008)

We think of Douglas Preston as a best-selling thriller novelist, but his roots are in journalism, and he is still a practicing journalist. His earliest

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