Film

The Post

Director
Steven Spielberg
Certificate
12A
Running Time
116 mins

Steven Spielberg reunites with Tom Hanks for a true-life political drama centred on the leaking of the Pentagon Papers to journalists working on the Washington Post and New York Times.

These exposed how four US administrations covered up the truth about US involvement in the Vietnam War. Hanks plays Post editor Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards bagged an Oscar for the same role in All the President’s Men), while Meryl Streep is cast as publisher Kay Graham. Go here for our full review.

By robin askew, Thursday, Dec 21 2017

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