Posted by: vinothifes on: January 29, 2011
With “whistle-blowing” once again the subject of legal and political harangues, surely it is only a matter of time before WikiLeaks and Julian Assange make it to Hollywood. The finest example from Hollywood of the genre of thriller-journalism is Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999), starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. More cleverly crafted than All [...]
Posted by: vinothifes on: January 8, 2011
One of the characters in the film The Social Network delivers what is intended as a generation-defining line: “We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re gonna live on the Internet.” A scary thought. What kind of life is it that is lived on the Internet? In my post of 31 [...]
