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Kill the Messenger
Film Review: Meet the Press in Illuminating ‘Kill the Messenger’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 14, 2014 - 11:22amCHICAGO – When journalists were heroes and exposed those in power for their sins, movies were made like “All the President’s Men.” Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News was one of those journalist heroes during the 1990s, but he wasn’t celebrated in his time. The indictments, induced paranoia and outright lies against him are distinctly chronicled in the luminary “Kill the Messenger.”
Interview: Director Michael Cuesta on Issues in ‘Kill the Messenger’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 8, 2014 - 11:50amCHICAGO – What happens when too much truth is exposed, and those who will feel the backlash from that exposure are too powerful? The new film “Kill the Messenger,” directed by Michael Cuesta, seeks an answer to that question through the true story of journalist Gary Webb, a victim of his own investigative reporting.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Kill the Messenger’ With Jeremy Renner
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on October 5, 2014 - 10:31pm- Adam Fendelman
- Barry Pepper
- Focus Features
- Gary Webb
- Gil Bellows
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- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- Jeremy Renner
- Kill the Messenger
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Michael Cuesta
- Michael Kenneth Williams
- Michael Sheen
- Oliver Platt
- Paz Vega
- Peter Landesman
- Ray Liotta
- Robert Patrick
- Rosemarie Dewitt
- Tim Blake Nelson
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new dramatic thriller “Kill the Messenger” starring Jeremy Renner based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb!
