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‘The Interview’ Was a Lightning Rod. Theaters Decided to Show It Anyway.
In the wake of the 2014 Sony hack, the James Franco–Seth Rogen satire was the most controversial film of the year. That didn’t stop independent theaters from fighting to screen it regardless … on Christmas Day.
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All Hope Will Leave You
In Episode 2 of ‘The Hollywood Hack,’ the hackers release hundreds of thousands of top-secret Sony emails—causing a scandal that reaches from Hollywood to the White House and beyond
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How the Sony Hack Changed Hollywood
After 10 years, it’s become clear that the cyberattack on Sony Pictures was one of the most stealthily seismic moments of the 2010s. ‘The Hollywood Hack,’ a new three-part podcast from The Ringer, explores the fallout and legacy of the infamous breach.
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The Matt Damon Hall of Fame. Plus: The Anxious Wonder of ‘Dìdi.’
Ringer contributor Brian Raftery also joins the show to discuss his miniseries about the Sony hack, running next week on the ‘Big Picture’ feed
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Episode 8: “I Love America”
In the eighth and final episode of our podcast series about how Hollywood took on the Vietnam War, host Brian Raftery talks to Oliver Stone about his Oscar-winning hit ‘Born on the Fourth of July’—and examines why the U.S. decided to move on from Vietnam in the ’90s.
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Episode 7: “Ain’t War Hell”
In Episode 7 of our narrative podcast about how Hollywood portrayed the Vietnam War, host Brian Raftery looks at the wave of high-profile Vietnam films that arrived in the wake of ‘Platoon’ and dominated the late ’80s—including Stanley Kubrick’s dark-hearted classic ‘Full Metal Jacket’
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Episode 6: “I Am Reality”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 6, host Brian Raftery talks to Oliver Stone about the making of his 1986 Vietnam War classic, ‘Platoon.’
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Brian Raftery on ‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’
The journalist and author joins to discuss his new podcast about Hollywood’s depictions of the Vietnam War
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Episode 5: “Nothing Is Over”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 5, host Brian Raftery takes a deep dive into the first two Rambo movies.
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Episode 4: “Little by Little, We Went Insane”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 4, host Brian Raftery tells the story of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now.’