The Fifth Estate is an extremely strange movie. That's fitting, perhaps, given the central focus of the film: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Star Benedict Cumberbatch is his normal awesome presence, but the story itself should have been redacted. As a story attempting to encapsulate massive cultural questions regarding government secrecy, privacy rights, dictators, and the misuse…
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One of the most prestigious film festivals in North America, the Toronto Film Festival, has begun to announce its line up for 2013. The event takes place September 5-15 and as usual, the line-up includes pretty much every highly-anticipated awards contender scheduled for release through the end of the year. Just a few examples are…
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The first trailer for Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, has just been released. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, the October 18th release dramatizes the rise, and fall of the controversial website Wikileaks. Check out the trailer below. Here's the trailer for The Fifth Estate: Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking…
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Finding the right balance between fact and fiction is a tough trick for any "based on a true story" movie to pull off, but at least the subjects of, say, Lincoln (or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, if you prefer) aren't actually around to comment on their portrayal. For movies about public figures who are still…
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Julian Assange has been hailed as a hero by some and decried as a villain by others, so it seems just about perfect that Bill Condon's WikiLeaks movie stars an actor who can play both. As principal photography on the film, now titled The Fifth Estate, gets underway, the first photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as…
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