Tag: politics

  • The 10 most memorable U.S. presidents in film

    The U.S. presidency has long been one of Hollywood’s favorite subjects for drama—and comedy, too, for that matter. Presidents both real and fictitious have inspired reverence and ridicule in cinema; and like politics itself, perceptions can be fluid. Take, for instance, 1933’s Gabriel Over the White House, in which Walter Huston plays a proudly fascist…

  • The 10 best films about race in America

    First, my disclaimer. I’m a white guy and, therefore, have a limited perspective on what it means to be anything other than a white guy in America. The “race issue” in the United States is a tidy phrase for an untidy reality. The original sins of the nation are the enslavement of Black Americans and the…

  • The 10 best journalism films

    Long before journalism was reshaped by the internet and culture wars, movies about reporters tended to depict them as stalwart crusaders for the people’s right to know or as doughy cynics in ill-fitting suits who chain-smoke, wisecrack, and swig cheap liquor from flasks hidden in their desk drawers. The genre has grown more conflicted since,…