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'Trumbo' movie: Bryan Cranston as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. 'Trumbo' movie review: Highly entertaining 'history lesson' Full disclosure: on the wall in my study hangs a poster – the iconic photograph of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with black-horned rim glasses, handlebar mustache, a smoke dangling from the end of a dramatic cigarette holder. He's sitting – stark naked – in a tub surrounded by his particular writing apparatus. He's looking directly into the camera of the photographer, his daughter Mitzi. Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo, gave me the poster after my interview with him for the release of Peter Askin's 2007 documentary also titled Trumbo. That film combines archival footage, including family movies and photographs, with performances of the senior Trumbo's letters to his family during their many years of turmoil before and through the blacklist, including his time in prison. The letters are read by,...

The Runner Trailer. Austin Stark‘s The Runner (2015) movie trailer stars Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, and Wendell Pierce. The Runner‘s plot synopsis: “‘The Runner’ follows an idealistic but flawed politician (Cage), who, in the aftermath of the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill, is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.”

The runner looks like Nicolas Cage returning to form is a good drama. Over the last three years, he has made many films of dubious quality. This film looks and feels looks to be the complete opposite of those films.

The Runner also stars Bryan Batt, Wanetah Walmsley, Fredric Lehne, Ciera Payton, Divine Prince Ty Emmecca, Christopher Berry, Kerry Cahill, James Moses Black, and Gus Rhodes.

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