Sentences with phrase «movies about journalists»

In terms of movies about journalists and journalism, Kill the Messenger is more on par with the 2007 film The Hunting Party than the industry standard All the President's Men.

Needless to say, a historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep is pretty much the Platonic ideal of awards season wild cards, even before you factor in the extent to which a movie about the journalists who declassified the Pentagon Papers might dovetail with current events (every vote is a vote against «fake news»).

Not exact matches

The movie, which is due to be released in the United States and Canada on Dec. 25, is a comedy about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In the movie, LLLI Founders Marian Tompson, Mary Ann Kerwin, and the late Mary Ann Cahill talk to New Zealand Leader and journalist Lisa Manning about their work, their relationships, and hopes for the future.

In the movie Marian Tompson, Mary Ann Kerwin, and the late Mary Ann Cahill talk to New Zealand Leader and journalist Lisa Manning about their journey, their relationships, and their hopes for the future.

(Airs 5/10/18 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Syndey Schanberg and Actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg's coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s.

By the end of this captivating if unsettling movie, Foos's unpunished criminality notwithstanding, you'll have plenty to chew on about the nature of the relationship between journalist and subject.

Greengrass, a former journalist from the U.K., had already directed Bloody Sunday, a movie about the 1972 massacre of Northern Irish protesters in Derry.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women in the movies.

During his visit, we went to the premiere of the movie and spoke to some of Mexico's key journalists about the film's local impact and how its altered their perspective on the complexity of citizen's taking matters into their own hands.

Filmgoers will learn about Curtis» apparent lack of interest in his newborn daughter, every detail of his affair with a Belgian rock journalist and even his favorite color and favorite movie.

Film criticism, not without its own scandals last year, is now dominated not so much by erudite journalists but white, male geeks who, somewhere between their love of comic book movies and web design, decided they had the chops to write about cinema without relevant education or experience.

When I wrote him a letter about why he should do this movie, I did talk about how we've come a long way from that time and I think [Redford] playing another journalist in this period of time carries extra added baggage for the film.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star is totally persuasive as a troubled brainiac, and his performance is the beating heart of James Ponsoldt's (The Spectacular Now) fun and moving road - trip movie about what happened when a Rolling Stone journalist (Jesse Eisenberg) accompanied the late writer on the last leg of his book tour.

We're all familiar with shows and movies where enterprising young journalists file pointless string while pining to write five - part New Yorker stories about wheat.

At one point during her thirteen years writing about movies for The Boston Globe, she was chastised by another journalist for having given Cabin Boy four stars.

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies, and EDA Awards at selected film festivals throughout the year.

The movie is about the journalist and a murderer on the FBI Most Wanted List who had lived outside the U.S. for years under Finkel's name.

ABOUT THE ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS: AWFJ, a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to raising the volume on women's voices in the film community by broadening opportunities for women who write about film and supporting films by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting EDA awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moABOUT THE ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS: AWFJ, a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to raising the volume on women's voices in the film community by broadening opportunities for women who write about film and supporting films by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting EDA awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout film and supporting films by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting EDA awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting EDA awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women in the movies.

James Ponsoldt's «The End Of The Tour» — a film about a Rolling Stone journalist shadowing author David Foster Wallace for a profile piece on the renowned writer — doesn't look like much of a movie on paper.

Cohen, ever the investigative celebrity journalist, asked Hammer about the short shorts he wears in the movie, which caused the actor to go red in the face almost immediately.

In that regard, the movie is also, in a very indirect way, about the layer of objective detachment between a journalist and a subject — whether it be an individual person or an entire country in the midst of war.

Earlier that day, the couple stepped out together to promote their upcoming movie about drug lord Pablo Escobar «s romantic relationship with a journalist.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra — group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra — group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra — group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the moabout women in the movies.

I'll be visiting several countries from five continents from the comfort of a cosy cinema screen in London — to South Africa for John Trengove's drama set amongst, and starring members of, the Eastern Cape's Xhosa tribe, The Wound; to Afghanistan for radio journalist Sonia Kronlund's profile of the country's most popular movie personality, Salim Shaheen, in The Prince of Nothingwood, and to Chile for A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio's critically - praised movie about a bereaved transgender woman.

I got a chance to sit down with Ed Helms and Christina Applegate with a few other journalists at a roundtable session for the film, where we talked about Chris Hemsworth's abs, that crazy car and Kiss From A Rose (watch the movie!).

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

There's lots of talk about how Kim is losing herself in the «Ka - bubble» (the particular and insulated life as a journalist in Kabul — wherein, among other things, she becomes a «9.5» in terms of attractiveness), but the movie only occasionally offers a glimpse of that heedless madness.

On Friday, April 28, 2017, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» along with Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Glenn Frankel (author of The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend), to discuss both the 1952 classic Western movie High Noon and Frankel's new book about its production, entitled High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of months, you've probably seen a trailer for The Soloist, a new movie about the remarkable bond between a Los Angeles journalist (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) and a homeless, classically trained musician (Jamie Foxx).

Joe Sharkey, a seasoned travel journalist, talks about how the recent President - elect will affect travel outside of the United States and talks about the upcoming movie adaptation of his book Above Suspicion from 20 years ago.