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After escaping imprisonment on an alien world, Picard and Dr. Crusher find that their thoughts are connected by brain implants. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Oct 11, 2021 - 16 comments

A group of NSA agents headed by Jon Voight conspires to kill a Congressman and to cover it up after a tape of the murder is discovered. Gene Hackman plays Brill, as a "continuation of The Conversation" from 1974. Jason Lee plays Daniel Zavitz. Jack Black plays Fiedler. Tom Sizemore plays mob boss Pintero. One of Tony Scott's 10 best films. The film inspired the US military to develop the WAMI hyper-surveillance technology.
posted by growabrain on Jun 12, 2019 - 8 comments

Carrie continues her crusade against Keane, Saul takes up his new job, and even Max can't save Carrie from her own cyber stupidity. [more inside]
posted by penguin pie on Feb 19, 2018 - 5 comments

Carrie and Franny are now living in DC. Saul is in prison. [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Feb 13, 2018 - 6 comments

I always feel like somebody's watching me/And I have no privacy/ Whoa, I always feel like somebody's watching me/Who's playing tricks on me? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 18, 2017 - 11 comments

The Parallax View, directed by Alan J. Pakula, stars Warren Beatty as a reporter who unearths evidence of a massive conspiracy to assassinate political figures, the work of the sinister Parallax Corporation. It’s part of a wave of similarly paranoid thrillers that swept through movie theaters in the 1970s in response to post-1968 disillusionment and the bona fide conspiracy of Watergate: Pakula’s All the President’s Men, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor, and many more. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Jul 21, 2017 - 10 comments

Angel Investigations finds a new home base, but first Angel has to take care of some old business. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Oct 15, 2015 - 3 comments

The crew returns from a Commerce Planet with a load of crackers and an alien called T'raltixx, who promises he can alter Moya's electromagnets to make her untraceable. Crichton is skeptical; it seems too good to be true. As they pass through a constellation of pulsars, an increasing paranoia affects the crew, turning them violently against each other. Crichton must fight against his own paranoid delusions to work out what T'raltixx is actually doing—and how to stop him. [via]
posted by along came the crocodile on Sep 30, 2015 - 14 comments

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 31, 2014 - 9 comments

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon that took place in 1977. Based on a play by Peter Morgan. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 27, 2014 - 3 comments

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 20, 2014 - 17 comments

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joe McCarthy. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 12, 2014 - 6 comments

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 6, 2014 - 11 comments

Every Monday for the month of October we'll be discussing a film that incorporates fear, paranoia, or panic - or all three! It's trick-or-treats for adults, come join in. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 30, 2014 - 5 comments

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Aug 24, 2014 - 8 comments