White, Madison worth watching in Sorkin’s engaging second Facebook story
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff (Jeremy Allen White) and Facebook engineer-turned-whistleblower Frances (Mikey Madison) examine some documents.
If you feel like you’re spending too much time on social media these days, go see The Social Reckoning. You’ll leave the theater wanting to delete your accounts immediately. Writer/director Aaron Sorkin, a filmmaker not exactly known for subtlety, gives us another absorbing power-to-the-people rebuke of people and institutions that have made us worse, not better, as a society. Continue reading “Film Review: “The Social Reckoning””
Presidential candidate Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) faces intense media scrutiny after rumors of an extramarital affair surface.
To watch The Front Runner is to be amazed at how much the political climate has changed in 30 years. Back then, the well-regarded, young, smart, Kennedy-esque Colorado senator Gary Hart, widely considered the front runner for the Democratic nomination, had his campaign derailed by just the whiff of an extramarital affair. Fast forward to today, and a candidate with multiple accusations of affairs harassment, and vulgar language has no problem staying in the race, and, ultimately, winning. How far we’ve come. But director Jason Reitman’s (Young Adult; Juno; Up in the Air) new film is less a treatise on changing public perception, and more a study of how journalism has changed, opening the door to what is now considered acceptable and expected scrutiny of candidates’ private lives. And for that, the film is worth seeing. Continue reading “Film Review: The Front Runner“
