Sentences with phrase «film about hacking»

Not exact matches

The people who claimed responsibility for the hack have said on Internet postings that they were incensed by the Sony Pictures film «The Interview,» a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Funnily enough I went recently to the screening of the new film about Julian Assange, the Fifth Estate, and I was talking afterwards to Alan Rusbridger, and I said to him, and he didn't disagree, in fact he agreed, I said, «the Guardian gets the credit for basically exposing the phone hacking scandal, but if we hadn't picked it up, nothing would've happened».

Someone suggested the other day that there will have to be a film about the phone - hacking scandal.

I think the production tried though I feel that the movie was done on the cheap side without any innovative thought to the film making or script (Which is how I usually feel about Rodriguez films who I still consider a hack).

It's round - about journey to the big - screen was a logical conclusion, and while the first was praised as playfully ridiculous and a violent tongue - in - cheek satire on Mexploitation films, this sequel is a long, drawn - out series of mind - numbing beheadings, choppings, limb - hackings and gore - splattering scenes that would make a death camp survivor long for the good old days.

Every Thing Will Be Fine is a critic's worst nightmare, which is to say that it's really goddamn boring — the kind of boring that is tough to write about, and which inevitably threatens to bring out everyone's inner hack, cycling through synonyms to keep the prose lively («dull,» «tedious,» «stultifying,» etc.), all the while fighting the urge to just start nitpicking things that might be endearing in a better film.

Fans may be glad to know this is a film that is obviously made by people who care about crafting a good adaptation, and not by corporate hacks looking to make quick cash slapping together a sloppy story to exploit an already huge franchise.

Lawrence recently talked to Vanity Fair about doing nude scenes for Red Sparrow as opposed to the smartphone hacking of her nude selfies, saying that the film's nudity was her choice, and that by doing it, «I got something back that was taken from me.»

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

Rather than being remembered as a fairly light - hearted comedy about an intercontinental hit job, the film is primarily associated with the infamous Sony hack that went down just prior to its release, which was seen as a retaliatory act by North Korean hackers and led to the film being pulled from most theaters.

The movie is awful, from the script's blending of Southern charm and Jewish slang, to the over-the-top performances by its actors, but when an internet posting begins a rumor that star Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) should garner an Oscar nomination come awards time, the film's publicist (John Michael Higgins) goes into overdrive, generating even more buzz about possible nominations for its other two stars, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey).

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The Sony hack targeted the emails of Sony film executives, which revealed a side of Hollywood rarely seen by outsiders, and the decision to name the event as a catalyst for Facebook's message purge indicates how troubling the incident was in Silicon Valley — and that Facebook was concerned about being hacked.