Counter culture
Screens
THE POST
Directed by STEPHEN SPIELBERG
Starring MERYL STREEP, TOM HANKS
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
Directed by PAUL MCGUIGAN
Starring ANNETTE BENING, JAMIE BELL
In the movies, true stories aren’t always exactly true and history is often told by men. But here are two “difficult” women in a man’s world, one calling the shots in the world of newspapers, the other a Hollywood star in exile.
In , it’s 1971 and is struggling. Owner and publisher Katharine Graham is about to launch the daily on the stock exchange to raise much-needed capital when her feisty editor Ben Bradlee proposes they risk everything by publishing the Pentagon Papers, a cache of leaked documents exposing the lies four administrations have told about the conduct of the
