Is THE SOCIAL RECKONING as good as THE SOCIAL NETWORK? Well ... no. But it's a difficult story to dramatize told well, with fine pacing and plenty of humor. And lots of overlapping dialogue. Hey: it's an Aaron Sorkin movie.
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It's awards season, baby! I asked Katey Rich and Christopher Rosen to weigh in on Tom Cruise's Oscar chances for DIGGER, if THE ODYSSEY can be beaten, what Inde Navarette's chances are against Julianne Moore, and what you should be looking forward to seeing!
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"It's hard to imagine two memoirs more different in tone, style, or substance." But here they both are.

@sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews "My Thirty Years at the Happiest Place on Earth" by Bob Chapek and "Roll the Calls" by Ari Emanuel:

Look, did I write this entire review of Bob Chapek and Ari Emanuel's memoirs so I could implicitly compare Emanuel to Judge Holden from "Blood Meridian"? Not consciously, no. But subconsciously? Maybe! www.thebulwark.com/p/the-knifem...

In which DIGGER inspires Alyssa to finally tell the truth about Peter. This was a fun episode! Entertainingly contentious! The best kind of contentious! movieaisle.substack.com/p/the-first-...

We live in an age of antiheroes and wonder why everything is so messed up. (Corrected to reflect the century this list covers. Small thing, that typo. What's a hundred years between friends?) www.thebulwark.com/p/the-age-of...

DIGGER has one of the best scenes of the year—and also the rest of the movie. Kind of a mess! Amazing commitment to the bit by Tom Cruise, our last movie star. An interesting failure, and I'm honestly not sure which of those words to stress more. www.thebulwark.com/p/digger-rev...

If Congress passes a new law giving film productions tax breaks as part of an effort to get them to shoot in the United States rather than abroad, does that mean presidents will have some say over what films get made? Our @sonnybunch.bsky.social finds out:

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There's a chance that, for the first time, a federal film credit will pass. If it does, and if California OR New York expands their tax credits, it will have consequences for Paramount-Skydance's settlement with the AGs. I explain why in my newsletter: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-bipartis...

The film I directed, "I Agree With You," is now available on Prime Video. So, if you never got a chance to see it at a festival or theatrical screening, you can now watch it at home!
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I think V FOR VENDETTA is much more relevant now than it was during the War on Terror years for reasons I got into with director James McTeigue on this week's Bulwark Goes to Hollywood. Interesting movie to look at 20 years later! www.thebulwark.com/p/how-v-for-...

"The obvious reference point for Primetime is Nightcrawler. But as Lance Oppenheim’s jarring feature crashes to its climax, my mind was drawn back to another, entirely different film: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer." ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews:

@sonnybunch.bsky.social reacts to the Paramount deal, which keeps CNN and CBS under one roof while doing little to stop the consolidation state AGs were fighting in the first place.

PRIMETIME reminded me, weirdly, less of NIGHTCRAWLER than of OPPENHEIMER, in that they're both movies by people desperate to build a thing they don't fully understand and come to regret it after the fact. www.thebulwark.com/p/primetime-...