Jesse James on maan pahamaineisin rikollinen ja etsintäkuulutettu kymmenessä osavaltiossa. Hän on myös maan suurin sankari. Robert Ford sen sijaan on tuntematon, mutta hän aikoo muuttaa sen seikan liittymällä Jesse Jamesin joukkioon. Ystävyys vaihtuu kuitenkin pian kilpailuksi, ja maineen tavoittelusta tulee Fordille pakkomielle.
Kuuluisuus ei sovi sanfranciscolaisen rikospoliisin Harry Callahanin tyyliin. Hän ei halua tulla tunnetuksi yhdessä rokkarin, elokuvakriitikon ja puheohjelman juontajan kanssa. He ovat tapettuja julkkiksia, joiden nimet löytyvät salaperäisestä veikkausringistä. Ja Harry on juuri päässyt veikattavien listalle. Clint Eastwood kiinnittää aseen vyölleen viidettä ja viimeistä, kutkuttavaa Callahan-elokuvaa varten. Tällä kertaa Harryn pari on karatetaituri. Mafiosot, jotka ovat vannoneet listivänsä Harryn, yrittävät nyt suojella häntä. Hurjimmassa takaa-ajokohtauksessa sitten Bullitt-elokuvan, Harry painaa nastan lautaan saadakseen kiinni radio-ohjatun auton, jonka lastina on pommi. Elokuva toimii loistavana näyteikkunana kahdelle tulevaisuuden tähdelle: Jim Carrey on suurenmoinen huono-onnisena heavy metal -muusikkona, ja Liam Neeson tekee nappisuorituksen uhoavana elokuvaohjaajana. Jos kaipaa rankkaa toimintaa, on liityttävä pooliin mukaan.
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Thomas Barnes ja Kent Taylor ovat Salaisen palvelun agentteja, joiden tehtävä on suojella presidentti Ashtonia terrorismin vastaisessa huippukokouksessa. Presidenttiä ammutaan kuitenkin heti hänen saavuttuaan Espanjaan, kaaos on valmis ja salamurhaajan jäljittäminen käynnistyy. Yleisön joukossa on amerikkalaisturisti Howard Lewis, joka uskoo tallentaneensa tappajan nauhalle lomavideota kuvatessaan. Lisäksi tapahtumaa miljoonille tv-katsojille ympäri maailmaa on välittämässä amerikkalainen tv-tuottaja Rex Brooks. Kun kaikkien yksittäisten henkilöiden havainnot vedetään yhteen, palapelin palat loksahtavat paikoilleen - ja saman tien käy selväksi, että totuus pinnan alla on pelottavampi kuin kukaan olisi osannut edes kuvitella.
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
After a disastrous failure to stop a robber gang, the police attempt to redeem themselves through a series of publicity stunts and shootouts.
Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein ("The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."
In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published "The New Watchdogs" to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of the established order. Today the watchdogs are journalists, editors, and media experts who've openly become market evangelists and guardians of the social order. In a sardonic manner, "The New Watchdogs" denounces this press that, claiming to be independent, objective and pluralist, makes out it is a democratic force of opposition. With forcefulness and precision, the film puts its finger on the increasing danger of information produced by the major industrial groups of the Paris Stock Exchange and perverted into merchandise.
A trio of accidental outlaws travel the length of New Zealand, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.
Ysäri-ilmiö The Spice Girls valmistautuu megakonserttiin, mutta luvassa on monia kommelluksia ennen lavalle pääsyä. Tyttöbändin lisäksi leffassa nähdään mm. Roger Moore ja Elton John.
A budding journalist passionate about ethical, noble, hard-hitting journalism understands the more flourishing ghetto of sensationalism & news fabrication that the Entertainment TV Channel he belongs to, thrives on. When caught in a dilemma of whether to hold for a while or rise in protest, a situation forces him to make a decision that puts him out of work but… there begins his work.
Kun kahdeksan julkkista kutsutaan kaikkialta maailmasta kisaamaan nettirealitysarjassa, he huomaavat pian pelaavansa henkensä edestä. Pois äänestetyt joutuvat nimittäin kärsimään kammottavista seuraamuksista, jotka näytetään suorana kaikkialla maailmassa.
Social media influencer, 'DropTheMike', seeks thrills and stardom in the most horrific places. When he’s offered the possibility of a lucrative sponsorship, he takes his online channel to one of the most haunted hotels in America. What begins as a fun challenge accompanied by friends descends into a personal hell, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?
Based on Lee Smith's book of the same name, this documentary follows the story of the biggest political scandal in U.S. history.
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.
Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.