Category Archives: TV Series

Journalists are usually vilified by some, but more recently Journalists have been playing the heroes in the latest TV dramas, including one of my favorite show “The Newsroom”. But with budget problems and some print newspapers closing down, is this at odds with what we are seeing on TV? “…Yet if Hollywood still sees journalists [...]

“A story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect.” This is a great post on the power of storytelling. The brain remembers stories and that is the main argument the author makes in this article. Stories are powerful and now there is scientific evidence to prove it. “If [...]

The list. The 15 Best Movies About Journalism “1. His Girl Friday (1940) Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell butt heads in this story of an ex-husband and editor trying to win back his star reporter and ex-wife, whom he still loves. But it’s about more than that. It’s about the dehumanization of their subjects. There’s [...]

“The Toronto Film Festival is universally considered the opening of Academy Awards season, and the weary moviegoer, drained after a summer of exhausted superheroes and franchises, plunges in it with joy. I’ve been attending since 1977, and have watched it grow from a bootstrap operation, with the schedule improvised from day to day, into one [...]

“Director-writer Mohamed Diab’s timely film stars Dubai Film Festival Best Actress winner Bushra as one of three Egyptian women who rebel against their country’s history of sexual harassment. Perfectly timed to coincide with the massive protests that recently engulfed Egypt, Mohamed Diab’s Cairo 678 is a blunt but powerful portrait of three women of varying [...]