Film Review: “The Social Reckoning”

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””

Film Feature: Carrie and Chad Pick the 2026 Oscars

Film critics Carrie and Chad on who will – and who should – win the 98th Academy Awards

The 98th Academy Awards air tomorrow, Sunday, March 15th, live on ABC and Hulu at 4:00 pm PST, with comedian Conan O’Brien returning to host for the second year in a row. As always, our Spinning Platters film critics Carrie Kahn and Chad Liffmann make their major category predictions in the hopes of Oscar pool glory. Try your own luck here, and may the best film fan win!

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