{"id":40557,"date":"2025-11-21T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40557"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:31:41","slug":"good-night-and-good-luck-2025-starring-george-clooney-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40557","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Good Night and Good Luck&#8221; (2025) starring George Clooney \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z112025zview_goodnightgoodluck.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/strong><\/em> (2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Micah Bickham, David Cromer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>George Clooney, Grant Heslov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>George Clooney, Mac Brandt, Will Dagger, Christopher Denham, Glenn Fleshler, Joe Forbrich, Jennifer Morris, Michael Nathanson, Andrew Polk, Aaron Roman Weiner <\/strong>and <strong>Fran Kranz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>We will not walk in fear, one of another<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy leads investigations into individual citizens&#8217; private lives in an effort to route out communists and get them blacklisted.\u00a0 CBS journalist and broadcaster, Edward R. Murrow, arguably the most popular newsman of his time, takes a stand against McCarthy despite the problems and dangers it could cause him and others around him.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em> first appeared as feature film directed by George Clooney.\u00a0 In the film, Clooney played Fred Friendly.\u00a0 David Strathairn took the role of Edward R. Murrow.\u00a0 Clooney said the reason he didn&#8217;t take the lead in the movie was, &#8220;Murrow had a gravitas to him that at 42 years old I wasn&#8217;t able to pull off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em> was the first ever live televised global broadcast of a Broadway play.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic how events in the 1950s echo current events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em><\/strong> (2025) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z112025zview_goodnightgoodluck2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Night, and Good Luck (2025) Director: Micah Bickham, David Cromer Screenplay: George Clooney, Grant Heslov Stars: George Clooney, Mac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72,54,65,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40558,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557\/revisions\/40558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}