9 Oct 2026 02:45
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin: Social Reckoning; Dead Man's Wire and BBC Archive
Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.
Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review:
IN CINEMAS
The Social Reckoning (written and directed by Aaron Sorkin). Follow-up to Sorkin’s 2010 Oscar-winning script The Social Network. This story follows Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) as they attempt to tell the world how Facebook has profited from inciting disinformation, hatred and discord via their powerful social media algorithm.
PAID STREAMING - AroVision
Dead Man’s Wire (directed by Gus Van Sant, 2025). In 1977 Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a disgruntled Indianapolis real estate developer took the president of his mortgage company hostage at gunpoint. The drama was followed for several days by local and national media, but especially by local DJ Fred Temple (Colman Domingo) who became Kiritsis’ main communication channel to the outside world. The story has also recently been told on TV in the drama American Hostage (Neon).
FREE STREAMING - BBC Archive YouTube
The Last Lighthouse (1973). BBC documentary about the lonely life of the lighthouse keepers on Bishop Rock - the furthest away from mainland Britain, in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.
