President Donald Trump recently blasted CNN as “fake news,” but Stephen Colbert was ready on the defensive on “The Late Show” Tuesday night. In his opening monologue, Colbert addressed the three CNN resignations, which spawned from the retraction of a story linking Trump to Russia. “This is CNN’s worst mistake since their short-lived spinoff, ‘Wolf Blitzer’s Rockin’ Situation Garage,'” Colbert joked. On Thursday, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a story involving an investigation into a Russian investment fund with possible ties to several Trump associates. Also Read: Donald Trump Slams 'Failing' New York Times: 'Fake News Joke!
- 6/28/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Three CNN employees have handed in their resignations over a retracted story linking President Trump to Russia, the network announced Monday. The article was removed from CNN.com on Friday after the network decided it could no longer stand by its reporting. “In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignation of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” a network spokesperson told TheWrap in a statement. Also Read: CNN Producer Says Trump-Russia Story 'Mostly Bulls-- Right Now' in Leaked Undercover Video On Thursday, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published...
- 6/26/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
CNN has retracted its story about a Russian investment fund and possible ties to associates of Donald Trump, and apologized to entrepreneur and Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci. “Classy move,” tweeted Scaramucci in response. “Apology accepted.” The CNN report by Thomas Frank, posted to the network’s website Thursday, alleged that Senate investigators were tracking down ties between Scaramucci, founder of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, and a Russian…...
- 6/25/2017
- Deadline TV
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Content identification provider Vobile, Inc. said Thursday its vCloud9 technology will be used by cyberlocker Web site Filesonic, to help the company spot copyright infringement before users are able to share them publicly.
Vobile is best known for its patented VideoDNA “fingerprinting” technology, which is currently used by all of the major film studios and TV networks. vCloud9 works by scanning both uncompressed and difficult-to-track compressed cyberlocker material.
The issue is a topical one. As more and more technology companies,...
Vobile is best known for its patented VideoDNA “fingerprinting” technology, which is currently used by all of the major film studios and TV networks. vCloud9 works by scanning both uncompressed and difficult-to-track compressed cyberlocker material.
The issue is a topical one. As more and more technology companies,...
- 12/8/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reviewer: James van Maanen
Rating (out of 5): ****
The question "What’s the matter with Kansas?" should immediately bring to mind Thomas Frank’s best-seller on the subject. That’s good, since the documentary film of the same name is based on Frank's book. I have read only selections from this book, which uses the state of Kansas to make clear how the Republican Party, in tandem with the evangelical Christian movement, has boondoggled Americans into believing that it today represents the common man. I'll let Frank's own words speak for themselves here:...
Rating (out of 5): ****
The question "What’s the matter with Kansas?" should immediately bring to mind Thomas Frank’s best-seller on the subject. That’s good, since the documentary film of the same name is based on Frank's book. I have read only selections from this book, which uses the state of Kansas to make clear how the Republican Party, in tandem with the evangelical Christian movement, has boondoggled Americans into believing that it today represents the common man. I'll let Frank's own words speak for themselves here:...
- 2/7/2011
- by underdog
- GreenCine
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Eugene Jarecki
Early in Eugene Jarecki’s “Reagan,” we hear Ronald Reagan talk about how images aren’t always the same as the truth, especially in the case of presidents. And, he could have added, especially in the case of himself. Conservatives who have taken him as their mascot treat the president’s eight years in the Oval Office as a period of hallowed perfection. Others see him as a man whose economics crippled the country and whose administration crushed unions and broke laws. One montage, in a four-panel split-screen, shows the barrage of Reagan name-dropping that makes up our modern political discourse.
One group may have more facts in its corner, but Jarecki (“Why We Fight”) isn’t quite willing to take sides in the matter. He weaves together evidence that’s quite damning of Reagan with worship...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Eugene Jarecki
Early in Eugene Jarecki’s “Reagan,” we hear Ronald Reagan talk about how images aren’t always the same as the truth, especially in the case of presidents. And, he could have added, especially in the case of himself. Conservatives who have taken him as their mascot treat the president’s eight years in the Oval Office as a period of hallowed perfection. Others see him as a man whose economics crippled the country and whose administration crushed unions and broke laws. One montage, in a four-panel split-screen, shows the barrage of Reagan name-dropping that makes up our modern political discourse.
One group may have more facts in its corner, but Jarecki (“Why We Fight”) isn’t quite willing to take sides in the matter. He weaves together evidence that’s quite damning of Reagan with worship...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Eugene Jarecki
Early in Eugene Jarecki’s “Reagan,” we hear Ronald Reagan talk about how images aren’t always the same as the truth, especially in the case of presidents. And, he could have added, especially in the case of himself. Conservatives who have taken him as their mascot treat the president’s eight years in the Oval Office as a period of hallowed perfection. Others see him as a man whose economics crippled the country and whose administration crushed unions and broke laws. One montage, in a four-panel split-screen, shows the barrage of Reagan name-dropping that makes up our modern political discourse.
One group may have more facts in its corner, but Jarecki (“Why We Fight”) isn’t quite willing to take sides in the matter. He weaves together evidence that’s quite damning of Reagan with worship...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Eugene Jarecki
Early in Eugene Jarecki’s “Reagan,” we hear Ronald Reagan talk about how images aren’t always the same as the truth, especially in the case of presidents. And, he could have added, especially in the case of himself. Conservatives who have taken him as their mascot treat the president’s eight years in the Oval Office as a period of hallowed perfection. Others see him as a man whose economics crippled the country and whose administration crushed unions and broke laws. One montage, in a four-panel split-screen, shows the barrage of Reagan name-dropping that makes up our modern political discourse.
One group may have more facts in its corner, but Jarecki (“Why We Fight”) isn’t quite willing to take sides in the matter. He weaves together evidence that’s quite damning of Reagan with worship...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
When Nellie Forbush sang "I'm as corny as Kansas in August," I got the impression that Kansas is a groovy little state that grows corn and whose people are diligent farmers without a political care in the world. The truth is more controversial as we learn from Joe Winston's adaptation of Thomas Frank's book "What's the Matter with Kansas." The book is more polemical than the documentary positing that there's something wrong with the citizens of that flyover state who are too thick to realize that they're sharing a political bed with Republican politicians who think nothing of shafting the working class folks of that Midwestern state. As I watched the ordinary folks deliver their partisan spiels, I felt like congratulating Frank Baum's Dorothy when she explained to Toto, "We're not in Kansas any more." Too bad she could not liberate herself by remaining in Oz, ruled...
- 7/13/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Directed by: Alex Gibney
Cast: Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: R
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Plot: A documentary about lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the many scams he took part in while hobnobbing with the top members of Congress. From the director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Who’S It For?: This isn’t just for political junkies, but for anyone who’s interested in receiving a thorough education on a complicated but very real villain. Those who are politically inclined should be prepared to watch Tom DeLay and others get their names dragged through the mud, and then some.
Expectations: Going in, I knew little about this film, and not so much about Abramoff.
Scorecard (0-10)
Talking: The talking heads are balanced with politicians and the authors who may have written about them. Nina Easton, author of “Gang of Five,...
Directed by: Alex Gibney
Cast: Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay
Running Time: 2 hrs
Rating: R
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Plot: A documentary about lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the many scams he took part in while hobnobbing with the top members of Congress. From the director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Who’S It For?: This isn’t just for political junkies, but for anyone who’s interested in receiving a thorough education on a complicated but very real villain. Those who are politically inclined should be prepared to watch Tom DeLay and others get their names dragged through the mud, and then some.
Expectations: Going in, I knew little about this film, and not so much about Abramoff.
Scorecard (0-10)
Talking: The talking heads are balanced with politicians and the authors who may have written about them. Nina Easton, author of “Gang of Five,...
- 5/7/2010
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
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