As you may have heard, there’s an election today. Its importance is impossible to overstate no matter which side of the political aisle you’re on, and Bill Hader thinks you’d be “a moron” not to vote. Our imperfect electoral system has inspired many great movies over the years, a few of which celebrate it but most of which either lampoon it or show how vulnerable it is. After you, being the responsible citizen you clearly are, fulfill your civic duty by voting in the midterm election today, take a break from anxiously watching the results by watching one of these 10 films instead.
“All the President’s Men”
The soft glow of Deep Throat’s cigarette in a shadowy garage; Ben Bradlee’s (Jason Robards) “Okay we go with it” order to Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) as his elevator doors lightly close in...
“All the President’s Men”
The soft glow of Deep Throat’s cigarette in a shadowy garage; Ben Bradlee’s (Jason Robards) “Okay we go with it” order to Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) as his elevator doors lightly close in...
- 11/6/2018
- by Michael Nordine, Kate Erbland, Christian Blauvelt, Jude Dry and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Ryan Phillippe was honored for his involvement and support of the Innocence Project at City Winery in New York City on Nov. 15.
The organization works to exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The 42-year-old Shooter star explained to Et why he became an Innocence Project Ambassador.
Watch: Ryan Phillippe Opens Up About How He and Ex Reese Witherspoon Co-Parent During the Holidays
"I got involved about four or five years ago," Phillippe explained. "I reached out to them. It was on my heart after I read an article in the Texas Monthly about a man named Michael Morton, and I put myself in his shoes as I read it. I was near tears."
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Earlier in the month, Gerard Butler looked dapper as always at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (Fidf) Gala in Beverly Hills on Nov. 3. The non-political...
The organization works to exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The 42-year-old Shooter star explained to Et why he became an Innocence Project Ambassador.
Watch: Ryan Phillippe Opens Up About How He and Ex Reese Witherspoon Co-Parent During the Holidays
"I got involved about four or five years ago," Phillippe explained. "I reached out to them. It was on my heart after I read an article in the Texas Monthly about a man named Michael Morton, and I put myself in his shoes as I read it. I was near tears."
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Earlier in the month, Gerard Butler looked dapper as always at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (Fidf) Gala in Beverly Hills on Nov. 3. The non-political...
- 11/17/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
With Election Day here at last, we can finally set aside some time from the day to actually vote. When it’s all said and done, go back home and reflect with some of these better politically-themed films and cartoons.
The Candidate
Bill McKay (Robert Redford) has no hope of winning the U.S. Senate seat for California. McKay got noticed by the Democratic Party for his charm and integrity, but he is running against an unbeatable incumbent. The film was made in 1972, before Watergate inspired decades of cynicism in U.S. politics, but the bite of suspicion in political machinery is there. However idealistic any candidate starts, eventually the campaign eats them alive. Nowhere is that more clear than the closing line of the film: “What do we do now?”
Dr. Strangelove
During a showdown between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, one crazed general could very well...
The Candidate
Bill McKay (Robert Redford) has no hope of winning the U.S. Senate seat for California. McKay got noticed by the Democratic Party for his charm and integrity, but he is running against an unbeatable incumbent. The film was made in 1972, before Watergate inspired decades of cynicism in U.S. politics, but the bite of suspicion in political machinery is there. However idealistic any candidate starts, eventually the campaign eats them alive. Nowhere is that more clear than the closing line of the film: “What do we do now?”
Dr. Strangelove
During a showdown between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, one crazed general could very well...
- 11/4/2014
- by Colin Biggs
- SoundOnSight
Robert Redford is one of the movie stars of our time, yet I would contend that he’s always been an underrated actor. There are a host of reasons for that, and they feed into each other in subtle, at times mythic ways. You could say, on the one hand, that Redford was too golden-boy pretty (always a surefire way to not get nearly the respect you deserve), or that he was too understated as a screen presence, or that he was too openly skeptical of the Hollywood game. Redford had his first major big-screen role in 1965, in Inside Daisy Clover,...
- 11/30/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Team Experience is looking at key Robert Redford films as we approach the release of his lauded Oscar-buzzing comeback "All is Lost". Here's Tim Brayton on one of his milestone films.
In addition to being one of the great timeless sex symbols in Western culture, Robert Redford is noted for the passion of his activism: for art, as in the creation of the Sundance Film Festival and the exposure it gave to American independent filmmaking; and for politics, as seen in the joylessly obvious message movie Lions for Lambs. But let us try as hard as we possibly can not to hold that against him, and instead rewind all the way back to 1972. For it was in that election year that Redford acted in the first of many explicitly political movies of his career, The Candidate.
The title says it all: there’s a Senate campaign to wage, and a candidate to flog,...
In addition to being one of the great timeless sex symbols in Western culture, Robert Redford is noted for the passion of his activism: for art, as in the creation of the Sundance Film Festival and the exposure it gave to American independent filmmaking; and for politics, as seen in the joylessly obvious message movie Lions for Lambs. But let us try as hard as we possibly can not to hold that against him, and instead rewind all the way back to 1972. For it was in that election year that Redford acted in the first of many explicitly political movies of his career, The Candidate.
The title says it all: there’s a Senate campaign to wage, and a candidate to flog,...
- 9/13/2013
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
Now that the Presidential debates have wrapped up for the 2012 election, Time has compiled a list of the ten best debate scenes in film history. Included in the comedy-heavy list are Woody Allen's Fellini rant in "Annie Hall," Alicia Silverstone's gum-popping Haitian refugee speech in "Clueless" and Reese Witherspoon's brittle overachiever Tracy Flick opposite slacker Jessica Campbell in "Election." Full list below, along with a few clips. What debate scenes has Time left out that should be added to the list? 1. Tim Robbins opposite Gore Vidal in "Bob Roberts" 2. Denzel Washington's Wiley College debaters opposite the all-white Harvard team in "The Great Debaters" 3. Will Ferrell's Frank the Tank opposite Jeremy Piven in "Old School" 4. Robert Redford as Bill McKay in "The Candidate" 5. Alicia Silverstone's Cher expounding on Haitian refugees in...
- 10/25/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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