With Julian Assange a refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012, what’s his whistle-blowing website been up to? Well, last year WikiLeaks published the Syria files — more than 2 ...
Like last week’s “Captain Phillips,” “The Fifth Estate” is another slick thriller based on real-life events. But unlike the real Captain Phillips, who’s a rather bland man forced into extraordinary ...
The first trailer is now out for what might be one of the fall movie season's more politically contentious films: Bill Condon's take on Julian Assange, The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch ...
As the world doesn’t seem to have quite made up its mind about Julian Assange, it seems fitting that the new film about him and the rise of WikiLeaks has an ambivalence about it as well. “The Fifth ...
The rise of WikiLeaks, particularly during the release of leaked diplomatic cables obtained by Bradley Manning, has proved irresistible to filmmakers, and now DreamWorks Studios says it's started ...
In 2010, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin pulled off a rather marvelous feat. They made a movie about the Internet, Facebook origin story The Social Network, that was urgent, dark, scary, exciting. It's ...
Benedict Cumberbatch's Julian Assange movie The Fifth Estate will play opening night the Toronto Film Festival, which features a host of movies usually destined for Oscar success ...
The Fifth Estate opened the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night, receiving mixed reviews from critics. “Any five minutes of foregrounded human interest or backgrounded news material ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Actor Benedict Cumberbatch didn't get any help from Julian Assange in his preparation to play the founder of WikiLeaks in the film "The Fifth Estate," and guesses Assange probably ...