New Reviews: "28 Years Later," "Bride Hard," "Elio" 🔒

(Note to readers: I offer up my WaPo movie reviews to paid subscribers this week with a profound sigh concerning the state of our institutional media as we teeter on the edge of a wholly unnecessary war and as the angry masses in our streets go unreported. Margaret Sullivan, former media columnist for the Post/public editor of the New York Times, sums up this battle for factuality in the latest post from her newsletter "American Crisis" (highly recommended), as Fox News, the most-watched "news" source for much of America, gleefully and without restraint pushes the case for a US war with Iran.

Meanwhile, the "No Kings" protests of last weekend brought by independent count 4 to 6 million Americans out to decry the state of our nation – making it either the largest protest in the country's history or the second-largest after the Women's March of 2017. Where is this historic story in the WaPo, the Times, CNN and other major news outlets? Well below the fold and otherwise buried beneath coverage of the Trump tank parade and Israel's attack on Iran. As Sullivan notes, NBC's Kristen Walker cited a mere "tens of thousands" of marchers on Meet the Press last Sunday, which is nothing less than a dereliction of duty. (What I saw in Boston was well into the hundreds of thousands.)

When the official news outlets of record lie, obfuscate, downpedal and propagandize in the name of holding on to power (and don't get me started on the panicky op-ed attacks on New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani now that he's surging in the polls), it is up to you, the individual reader, to seek out the information you can trust. And that is a truly daunting task in this year of our national disaster 2025. Feel free to share your relied-upon sources with other Watch List readers in the comments section, and thanks in advance. We now return you to the movie reviews. – TB)