Box Office Bylines

There is a man. A certain man. A man whose grace and handsome face are known across the land. You know his name. It's Orson Welles! This week we're talking about Citizen Kane, AKA the greatest movie ever made (before Paddington 2). It's a quintessentially American story of a hollow billionaire running a media empire. Sort of like Succession but with Dutch angles. Tara and Jacob discuss Welles' incredible debut feature, noted big twat William Randolph Hearst and the perils of the auteur theory. Plus, you know we've got to shout out our boy Mank. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Why hasn't old person makeup got any better? Email us your thoughts at boxofficebylines@gmail.com. Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform and we might even make some more episodes.

Better late than never! After many digressions, we finally dive into the Marvel universe to discuss Venom! In which a crusading journalist falls in love with some alien parasite goo. Grace Segers and her cat join us to talk about Tom Hardy's acting quirks, plane movies, and why one of the fundamental traits of a journalist is being a big giant loser. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Is Eddie Brock naked under that goo? Email us your fan art at boxofficebylines@gmail.com. Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @Grace_Segers Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform so we can try to find a more interesting role for Michelle Williams.

It's some real Gonzo journalism this week as we discuss the 1981 musical heist flick and vaguely newspaper-related comedy The Great Muppet Caper. Tara and Jacob talk about why it's so disturbing to see the muppets' legs, our love of old-timey musicals, and the astounding talents of Charles Grodin and Dame Diana Rigg. Plus, what would the muppets be up to today if they were still alive? Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Dad, what's a muppet? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com. Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this show — well, it's really more of a supper club — please consider leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform.

This week, the inimitable Scaachi Koul joins us to discuss the film that taught her you can just do weird things to people and someone will pay you to write about it. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a profoundly flawed but nevertheless charming magazine rom-com starring a shirtless Matthew McConaughey and pre-yoga pants Kate Hudson. It's completely demented and it's a perfect movie. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Do you want to fool around while watching The Green Knight in a movie theatre? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com. Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @scaachi Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us alone so we can keep watching stupid things. But if you must, you could leave a review on your favourite podcast platform.

Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes! Cowboy Christian Bale organizes a brood of plucky orphans into a bonafide union in this not-great musical from the '90s. Tara and Jacob discuss the magical world of Disney, the real-life newsboys' strike of 1899 and, of course, gay subtext. Plus, it's Robert Duvall as Joseph Pulitzer! Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Where does it say you gotta live and die here? Where does it say a guy can't catch a break? Why should you only take what you're given? Why should you spend your whole life livin'. Trapped where there ain't no future. Even at seventeen. Breakin' your back for someone else's sake. If the life don't seem to suit ya. How 'bout a change of scene? Far from the lousy headlines. And the deadlines in between. boxofficebylines@gmail.com. Are you there? Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform otherwise we'll soak some scabs.

I couldn't help but wonder, is Sex and the City a journalism show? Michal Stein joins us to discuss the groundbreaking feminist-with-an-asterisk series and its problematic legacy. Plus, Tara on gay men writing women, dream editor Candice Bergen, and postulating what sexy hijinks the (three) gals will get up to in the dreaded revival. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. $700 on rent, $40,000 on shoes, $4.50 per word. Someone who is good at the economy please email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com. Our family is dying. Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @MichalStein2 @vocalfrystudios Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform so we can get a definitive answer on where The Paris Review of Books is located.

Horny reporter Elliott Gould rescues astronaut James Brolin after the government fakes a manned mission to Mars. Yes, it's a journalism movie starring BOTH Barbra Streisand husbands. Tara goes on a rant about space jagweeds. Jacob is a zodiac killer. Telly Savalas calls people perverts. Plus, the Universal Soldier and Friends connection. Box Office Bylines isn't a podcast about movies about journalism. No one by that name has ever lived here. Go check our magazines if you don't believe me, or just email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can launch our battle rap production company.

Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts expose a convoluted political conspiracy in this journalism thriller from Mr. King-of-the-'90s himself, John Grisham. Soraya Roberts (no relation) joins us to try and make sense of it all. Of course we talk about why they didn't kiss, but there's also porno theatre popcorn, Stanley Tucci's love of disguises, and important discussions about Julia's hairstyles. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Assassin ––––––––> White House??? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @sorayaroberts Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider having Cynthia Nixon leave us a five-star review at the laundromat in the back of the bar (or on your favourite podcast platform).

Katharine Graham's life story is more interesting than Steven Spielberg's hard-on for Vietnam in this swiftly assembled prestige drama about the Pentagon Papers. Tara and Jacob discuss thankless lady roles, the Gummer Extended Universe, and Tom Hanks' typewriter collection. Also, is it BFG or RBG? Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Are you somebody important or just a general assignment reporter? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we don't wind up as old men on IMDB's message boards.

A newspaper columnist takes bloody revenge against her online trolls. Truly, living the dream. Our pal Alison Lang is back to discuss this thriller from the Netherlands starring Katja Herbers, plus internet harassment, the polarizing hellscape of social media, and why it's impossible to not read the comments. Also, Jacob attempts to speak Dutch. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Want to speak freely in the marketplace of ideas? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Don't follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @womenandsong666 Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this podcast please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform or we'll reenact the ending of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Idealistic reporter Seth Rogen gives up his journalism dreams for a shot with Charlize Theron. Who amongst us! Tara and Jacob have a lotta love for this overlooked romance from 2019. We discuss the heartbreak of leaving journalism, the realities of an industry that beats the life out of you, and Alexander Skarsgård as Justin Trudeau. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. There's an air of silence. In the bedroom. And all around. Touch us now and email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this potato-in-a-windbreaker we call a show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform.

Is Rory Gilmore a good journalist? We wear stupid hats and talk really fast with television critic Myles McNutt to answer that question, discussing everything from Rory's days as a student newspaper prodigy in the original beloved series to her confusing mid-career crisis in the ill-advised revival. Plus, true stories of costars who hate each other, tales from WB studio tours, Lauren Graham's questionable dating history, and Tara announces her greatest fear. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Dean or Jess or Logan or Paris? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @Memles Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this show please consider putting a little coffee in our empty cups by leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform.

Legendary prankster George Clooney chronicles the broadcast battle between Edward R. Murrow and Joe McCarthy in this still-timely rebuke of government secrecy and fear-mongering. Can we talk about the smoking, though? Plus, Tara and Jacob discuss old-timey advertisements, Liberace's girlfriends, and we count down Clooney's top practical jokes and pranks. (Apologies for the noisy laptop!) Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Can this instrument teach, can it illuminate and can it inspire? And can it do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends? Or is it nothing but wires and lights in a box? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform or we'll be forced to remortgage our Lake Como villa.

Audrey Hepburn does a reverse-Princess Diaries around Rome, and newsman Gregory Peck's got the story. Self-proclaimed ‘Hephead' H.G. Watson returns to the pod as we discuss this delightful 1953 classic, plus the fascinating lives of its lead actors, and the unimaginable per-word rate of $25. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Have you been blacklisted because of your communist sympathies? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @HG_Watson Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can finance our Niagara Holiday adaptation.

Meryl Streep is Nora Ephron and Jack Nicholson is Carl Bernstein in this 1986 (romantic?) comedy about the messy divorce of two titans of journalism. Tara and Jacob discuss pies in faces, Mandy Patinkin's acting choices, and the literati of New York City. We also reveal the identity of Deep Throat. Spoiler alert! Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Do you have anything to share with group? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) We've gotta be sheltered and fed and dressed in the best that money can buy. I never knew how to get money, but I'll try, I'll try, I'll try. I go out and make it. Or steal it. Or take it. Or die! (Or just consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform.)

Welcome back to the movies! Special guest Eva Holland joins us to kick off season two with this 2009 political thriller starring Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, and Jennifer Lopez's Ben Affleck. We discuss bad hair choices, blackmailing sources and Crowe's endearing Great Big bromance with Alan Doyle. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. What's the best Jessica Chastain role not featuring Jessica Chastain? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don't ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @evaholland Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you're a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform or we'll be stuck evading armed assassins in this parking garage forever.

’Tis the season (finale) and it’s all been building up to this: Spotlight! Tara and Jacob reminisce about their newsroom night out at the movies to see the gold-standard of journalism films. Plus, bad fashion and sad apartments, Sofia’s Coffee Shop, dead rat stories, and the importance of stumbling around in the dark. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. What films should we talk about next season? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Are you a fan of this show? Too bad, because we’re going away for awhile. But please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform, anyway. After all, it is Christmas. Happy holidays!

A Romanian documentary about health care corruption is one of the best journalism movies ever made. This week, Jacob and Tara watched the horrifying, soul-shattering Collective. We discuss how a team of sports journalists uncovered such a massive story, and what happens when the press bows down to authorities. Skip your murder podcasts this week and watch this film instead. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. How often do you doubt your own work? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Are you a fan of this show? Please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so that in 80 or 90 years maybe things will improve.

Jennifer Garner is a time-travelling magazine editor in 13 Going On 30. Jacob has a lot of timeline questions and Tara isn’t interested in answering them. We discuss whether this beloved 2004 rom-com is a secret neo-conservative psyop, along with the inimitable talents of Judy Greer, and whether young Jenna used her future knowledge to prevent 9/11. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. What’s your favourite body swap movie? We don’t want to know but email us about it anyway at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Are you a fan of this show? Please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform and we’ll go watch Mank.

This week it’s all about the He Said, She Said bullsh**. Tara and Jacob basically watched two different movies, which is actually on brand for this semi-forgotten Rashomon-esque rom-com from the ’90s about duelling Baltimore Sun columnists who fall in and out of love. We discuss Kevin Bacon’s acting career, Sharon Stone’s superstardom, and the difference between a journalist and a newspaperman. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Who is young Old Man in X-men? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Are you a fan of this show? Please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so our night terrors will stop.

This week we have an absence of applause for the 1981 newspaper revenge thriller Absence of Malice. Tara and Jacob discuss why Paul Newman hates journalists, getting burned by sources, and the career of screenwriter and alt-weekly alumnus Kurt Luedtke. Plus, Wilford Brimley pronounces ‘subpoena.’ Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Paul Newman or Robert Redford? Who’d you rather? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Are you a fan of this show? Why not take a trip down to Monitor Town and leave us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform.

It’s the grand-zaddy of all journalism movies, All The President’s Men. Tara and Jacob discuss the myth of the journalist superhero and how the media covers political corruption. Timely! As Jerry Maguire would say, follow the money! Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Is it fair for Hollywood to cast hot people as schlub reporters? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can get recording gear that doesn’t mess up every episode.

Do you like scary movies? Self-described “total Scream-head” Allison Saunders sure does. Our very own Sydney (Cape Breton) Press-cot joins us on a 15-year journey through meta-horror and tabloid journalism clichés as we discuss Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, and Scream 4! #JusticeforGaleWeathers Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. So no one told you life was gonna be this way? Email us about it at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @alliesaysrelax Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so Tara can expand her audio empire to podcasts about Entourage and Felicity.

Naomi Watts investigates an evil horse girl’s haunted VHS tape while under a very literal deadline in The Ring. Alison Lang, author of Women With Guts: Horror Heroines in Film, TV and Print (and also Tara’s former roommate) joins us to discuss Amber Tamblyn’s death face, bathtubs full of black goo, and everything J-horror (the J stands for journalism). Watch more horror movies with Alison at Toxic Femmes Films on Facebook. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Would you like to watch our weird indie film about ladders and a fly? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx @womenandsong666 Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so Tara can go on a seven-day vengeance tour.

Nicole Kidman is a murderous meteorologist in To Die For. Jacob and Tara discuss this under-appreciated mid-’90s dark comedy along with how to become famous in America, Joaquin Phoenix’s torso, and David Cronenberg being creepy (on film). Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. When did you discover satire? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @thorneyhfx Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can interview Michael Keaton.

Powerful men, prosthetics, and dangling queer content? That's a Fox story. Join Tara and Jacob as they riff on 2019's fizzy Bombshell, the story of Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron), and Kayla somebody (Margot Robbie as a composite), joined by a cast of 200—for real—for the wild tale of the sexual assault allegations that brought down Fox News honcho/doughnut aficionado Roger Ailes (John Lithgow in a fatsuit). Directed by known king of political and sexual nuance, Jay Roach. Groovy baby! Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. If you'd like to accuse Tara of anger menstruating email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you like this podcast please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite platform so we can help Connie Britton get a better agent.

It’s fake news from the ’50s in Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole. Kirk Douglas stars as a disgraced reporter who exploits small-town tragedy for fame and profit in this overlooked film noir classic. Former Buzzfeed News and New York Times editor Lisa Tozzi joins us all the way from the Big Apple to talk journalism ethics, media circuses, and rattlesnake festivals. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. What are we, chopped liver? Email us already with your favourite journalism movie at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @lisatozzi Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you like this podcast please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can buy a belt to go with these suspenders.

The tragic life and death of Christine Chubbuck gets dramatized in Christine. Our pal Rebecca Dingwell joins us as we discuss this deeply sad movie, internet gore vultures, the perils of writing a bio flick, and the lack of mental health support in journalism. Warning to our listeners: This episode features a frank discussion about both suicide and depression. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. How many damn Batmens do we have to learn in our lives? Email us if you know the answer at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon @BDingz Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so Tara can finally stop talking about Joker.

Jake Gyllenhaal is LA’s most dangerous freelancer in Nightcrawler, a movie about a crime-scene videographer who drives around at night killing some people and offering others unpaid internships. You gotta respect the hustle. Tara and Jacob discuss the declining ethics of broadcast news companies, the career of famous New York photojournalist Weegee, and our favourite assorted Batmen, Spider-Men and Jokers. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Are you Rene Russo? Why aren’t you in more stuff? You’re great. Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so that we can continue pursuing our career goals as full-time employees of Video Production News (a professional news-gathering service).

Stop the presses, it’s The Paper! A pre-Spotlight Michael Keaton stars in this overlooked journalism classic. Tara roasts Ron Howard’s filmography, Jacob imagines Robert Duvall in a Marvel movie, and we both discuss why it’s better to be right than first. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Have you played the fifth at Shinnecock? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can finally fix the air conditioning.

A journalism star is born in this 1996 romance starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford: “The story of a woman on the way up, and a man who helped her get there.” We’re off the deep end, watch as we dive in to talk about the Hollywood nightmare that turned Jessica Savitch’s tragic journalism career into this melodramatic Disney trash. Also, we mix up Dangerous Liaisons and Dangerous Minds. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Were men attractive in the ’90s? Email us your thoughts at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) We’re everything we are because you loved us, so please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform.

Sha, la, la, la, la, la, la, yeah, uh-huh. Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones, because we need a drink after this grim historical thriller where a Welsh journalist exposes Soviet genocide and finds out the hard way that no good reporting goes unpunished. Tara and Jacob discuss fake news, eating noises, and Peter Sarsgaard’s butt at an opium party. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. What did you think about Hobbs & Shaw? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can finally land an interview with Stalin.

The fashionable Katie Toth is here for everyone’s favourite haute couture workplace comedy, The Devil Wears Prada. Who’s the movie villain and who’s the actual villain? Why is Andy so unprepared for her job interviews? And are you wearing…the Chanel boots? Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Do you have opinions about Anne Hathaway? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Follow us on the old bird box (AKA Twitter): @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon @kat_toth Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform or we won’t get to go to Paris.

Beanie Feldstein is Caitlin Moran in the coming-of-age rock & roll journalism romp How To Build A Girl. Jacob and Tara discuss the role of a music critic in “napalming the parasites,” and delight themselves by attempting bad English accents. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Want to talk to Tara about Joker? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can buy some jaunty new hats.

For a problematic Canadian holiday, we watched two Canadian movies with problems. First, Toronto’s Rob Ford scandal meets millennial media angst in the 2020 drama Run This Town. Then, a Montreal reporter with an advanced case of horniness organizes a newspaper union in the 1974 sex comedy Why Rock The Boat? Tara and Jacob discuss Damian Lewis’ baffling Rob Ford impression, sexy popcorn eating, and our true patriot love for seeing characters take their shoes off when they come inside. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Got a hot news tip for TMZed? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so that we can become The New York Times of Canadian podcasting.

Special guest H.G. Watson joins us for David Fincher’s 2007 thriller, Zodiac! We obsessively discuss whether this is a journalism movie or a cop movie, the ethics of publishing serial killer sudoku, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s hairless knuckles. Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Are you the real Zodiac killer? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com Check out Indiegraf.com and sign up for H.G.'s newsletter. Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon @HG_Watson Theme Music: Dance Movie If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform and in response we’ll swiftly pivot to a true-crime format.

It’s the ultimate screwball comedy classic about daffy buttinskis running around without a nickel in their pockets (AKA journalists). Jacob and Tara ruminate on Cary Grant’s love life and Rosalind Russell’s jawline, swap tales of old Hollywood, and learn to leave the rooster story alone—that’s human interest. His Girl Friday: publicdomainmovie.net/movie/his-girl-friday Torchy Blane: rtdna.org/article/torchy_blane_the_most_famous_fictional_journalist_you_ve_never_heard_of Adela Rogers St. John: time.com/4265954/adela-rogers-st-johns/ Box Office Bylines is a podcast about movies about journalism. Think you can come up with a better name? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform so we can monetize this and get real jobs. Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com/) Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon

Broadcast News It’s the movie we almost named this podcast after! Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks star in the 1987 classic Broadcast News, from writer/directer James L. Brooks. Tara and Jacob discuss Hunter’s Oscar-worthy line readings, the ethics of style versus substance in journalism, and past crying jags in the office. Box Office Bylines is a show about movies about journalism, hosted by journalists/movie fans Tara Thorne (in Halifax) and Jacob Boon (in Yellowknife). Got an idea for a journalism movie or TV show we should talk about? Disagree with our critical comments? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform. Theme Music: Dance Movie Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon

Two duelling Chicago reporters uncover a massive corporate conspiracy, and maybe find love along the way? Romance was never more dangerous (or improbable!) in this 1994 romantic-comedy-drama-thriller-awful movie. Tara and Jacob question why Nick Nolte is portrayed as sex incarnate, ruminate on Julia Roberts' "lost years" in Ireland, and find out how long it takes to walk from Wisconsin to Nevada. There's also some journalism! Box Office Bylines is heard every Tuesday on NowhereFM—pirate radio to ease the isolation. Listen live at nowherefm.net Got an idea for a journalism movie or TV show we should talk about? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform. Theme Music: Dance Movie Contact: @BoxBylines @thorneyhfx @rwjboon

Peak-hotness Kurt Russell stars as Malcolm Anderson, a potential Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami reporter burnt out from the crime beat who only wants to move away to Colorado with his schoolteacher girlfriend. But fate—and a serial killer—intervenes. Jacob and Tara talk about this pulpy journalism thriller, Mariel Hemingway’s eyebrows, and why men in these movies are never happy to be a journalist. Box Office Bylines is heard every Tuesday on NowhereFM—pirate radio to ease the isolation. Listen live at nowherefm.net Got an idea for a journalism movie or TV show we should talk about? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform. Theme Music: Dance Movie Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon

The disgraced reporter Stephen Glass gets the biopic treatment in the form of Hayden Christensen for 2003's Shattered Glass, a look at Glass' so-called career fabricating large-scale features for The New Republic, among others who should have known better. Tara and Jacob are joined by Halifax journalist Kim Hart Macneill.

Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney star in Bad Education, a new HBO movie about the real-life largest school system embezzlement scam in New York history—all uncovered by an intrepid high school student journalist.

It's 2015: Judd Apatow is the king of comedy, Brie Larson is playing a supporting character, and Amy Schumer is one of cinema's worst journalists. Welcome to the Trainwreck cinematic universe, where a good relationship is impossible and so is not sleeping with your sources (Bill Hader); perhaps the two are related? Join Tara and Jacob as they grapple with their guilt over liking the movie but hating its handle on journalism (none). Box Office Bylines is heard weekly live on NowhereFM—pirate radio to ease the isolation. Listen at nowherefm.net Got an idea for a journalism movie or TV show we should talk about? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform. Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon

We're mad as hell and we have to take it, because the government said so! But back in 1976, Paddy Chayefsky sent up the TV news business with this four-time Academy Award-winning tale of a man pushed to the brink and the nation he radicalized. (Or did he?)Tara and Jacob get drunk, cheat on their wives, and talk about the good old days.

A once-muckraking newsroom of counter-culture idealists now struggles with dwindling finances and journalistic disillusionment. Is it every newspaper across the world? No! It’s this week’s movie—Between The Lines, AKA the best (and only?) alt-weekly newspaper movie ever made. Jacob and Tara talk about how eerily this 1977 Joan Micklin Silver film mirrors their own newspaper experience, as well as asking for raises, weirdos walking in off the street, and Jeff Goldblum as Jeff Goldblum. As the tagline says, “it’s fun, adventure and romance, all on $75 a week.” Box Office Bylines is heard every Tuesday on NowhereFM—pirate radio to ease the isolation. Listen live at nowherefm.net Got an idea for a journalism movie or TV show we should talk about? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform. Theme Music: Dance Movie, dancemovie.bandcamp.com Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon

Hold me closer tiny dancer because it’s our debut episode and we’re talking about the incendiary Almost Famous. Golden gods Tara and Jacob discuss the importance of being uncool, the ethics of access journalism, and the death (???) of music reporting. Plus, is the fact checker at Rolling Stone justified in her hatred of William? It’s all happening. Box Office Bylines is heard weekly live on NowhereFM—pirate radio to ease the isolation. Listen at nowherefm.net Got an idea for a journalism movie or TV show we should talk about? Email us at boxofficebylines@gmail.com If you’re a fan of this show please consider leaving us a five-star review on your favourite podcast platform. Theme Music: Dance Movie (dancemovie.bandcamp.com) Contact: @BoxBylines (don’t ask) @thorneyhfx @rwjboon