Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Washington D.C., June 1, 1972 – January 20, 1973Up until November 17, 1973, Richard Nixon was known for being that guy who talked about his dog Checkers and the guy who sweated too much on TV. An...

Nixon would have loved to see Woodward and Bernstein's book shelved in the fiction section, alongside other books of lies like A Million Little Pieces or The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven. (The aut...

Docudrama, Political ThrillerTruth may be stranger than fiction, but Hollywood is prettier than real life. So when they tackle the truth, they do it with attractive people. We've seen Elizabeth Mon...

Humpty DummyThere's a famous nursery rhyme that concludes all the president's horses and all the president's men couldn't make "sock it to me " funny again. We may not have that exactly right. Ther...

Bringing Down the (White) HouseAll the President's Men is a backwards movie, like if Harry Potter killed Voldemort in The Sorcerer's Stone and spent six more books attending classes at Hogwarts. Wh...

PGIt must have been pretty shocking in the 1970's to discover that the entire presidential administration was jam-packed with corruption. Today, we hardly bat an eyelash when a politician has an af...