So much of the self-hagiography around the Snowden crew is precisely that: Self-dramatizing stuff into boxes of tropes of 'spy thrillers' that we already 'know.' So the NSA is totally like it is in Enemy of the State/The Bourne Movies, and we're breaking through these secret bad guys to tell you that.

Because Oliver Stone is box office gold these days?

Star Trek Beyond Beyond will be 90% Spock bitching at people on the Enterprise Computer:

And he's so patriotic that he tried to join the Special Forces, and was so good he didn't even know he had two broken legs! Seriously, this seems like the most boring fanfic ever.

The fascinating thing about Marc Rich is that apparently he was deeply involved in Israeli intelligence as a kind of go between/fixer for them, and the Pardon was one of the things Clinton used to try and get a last minute Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

See that, Streebeck. We're just in time.
We have stumbled into a major crime.

If it's true to life, it'll mostly be him talking to Poitras while Glenn trolls people on the internet http://www.lawyersgunsmoney…

I mean Spider-Man 3 and Amazing Spider-Man 2 are Exhibit A and B for the problems of Too Many Things in a Superhero Movie, but the difference is that ASM2 is bad because the studio is trying to go from zero to CINEMATIC UNIVERSE in 2+ hours AND stick in a Classic Comics Storyline (TM) while SM3 is all about Sam…

That's kind of the problem. If anything, the story needs a healthy bit of skepticism that isn't there. Filming it like a Hollywood 90s techno-thriller just indulges the most Mary Sue parts of his story. And Stone is someone who'd buy those parts hook, line, and sinker. Basically, no one is more likely to reduce the…

Nixon also so badly wants to be Citizen Kane, but isn't anywhere close to it.

You know who wouldn't have bothered with the accent?

"I am big. It's the conspiracies that got small." - Oliver Stone

The idea that apparently the most solid part of the film is the terrible voice does not inspire any confidence.

"This week, Jake Sullivan talks with David Remnick, Clinton’s top foreign policy advisor, about…"

And, after Dylan Baker as Good MacNamara, you get Alec Baldwin as Bad MacNamara.

It's fascinating. Caro really did hate him in Parts 1 and especially 2 (to the point that it's the worst book; he goes way over the top in both lionizing segregationist Coke Stevenson and demonizing LBJ) but then came to respect and appreciate and sympathize with him by Parts 3 and 4. He went from treating him as…

"They may have to hospitalize Sid Bream, he's down at the bottom of a huge pile at the plate."

Growing up in Georgia, I loved the wonderful mix of Larry Munson's unabashed homerism and deep pessimism. He's clearly rooting for the home team, but at every moment he thought they're doomed, to it was a wonderful mix of fear and deliverance whenever something went right.

"And, like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field"

I knew plenty of college football fans like that too, though I wonder how common it still is now that the old-time greats aren't there anymore. Listening to Larry Munson call Georgia football was a treat in a way that listening to whoever does it now isn't.