I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore" — a 50-year-old movie line perfectly captures today's national mood ...

For those who don’t know, Network is about UBS, a fictitious broadcast network, and one of its top anchors, Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch. Finch’s performance won him an Oscar. On the verge of a ...

There are individuals, very intelligent individuals living in the world today, who view Paddy Chayefsky’s film NETWORK through something other than a satirical lens. Which is entirely understandable ...

There are moments in American cinema when art catches history in its teeth — when the camera becomes a prophecy. Two films from the late 1970s do this. Hal Ashby’s “Being There” (1979) and Sidney ...

Network's Howard Beale (Peter Finch) has his freakout — saying he's retiring because of low ratings and is going to kill himself on live television — while on air, whereas The Newsroom's Will McAvoy ...