Film and TV watching - September 2025
The Hack - A highly accessible, if far too long, account of the hacking scandal illustrating the web of back scratching, corruption and illegal activity held in place with fear over many years. It’s a depressing story, and unfortunately a complicated one due to the web of connections and cover-ups that needed to be exposed. But it’s told with verve, using the same approach as The Big Short , simplifying with explanations direct to camera by our narrator and guide, David Tennant as the journalist Nick Davies who over many years doggedly hunted this story down for The Guardian . I fear nothing much has changed, and in fact it may well have accelerated the mistrust of all journalism, including the good and honourable ones, and the turning to online ‘experts’ instead. The text at the end explaining what happened next was both damning and depressing But even so, it is worth a watch to remind ourselves of what happened and is maybe still happening. ( Series, ITV and ...