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Snowden

Podcast Release Date:
Apr 18, 2025

Hacker Movies Series Episode 8

Natural Born Leakers

Director Oliver Stone (JFK) points his camera at America’s 21st-century surveillance systems to ask if privacy is a thing of the past in the 2016 biopic Snowden.  Can Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) produce the password that unlocks the reasons why a bright young Republican turned sour on the Patriot Act and gave top secret dirt to the liberal media?  And should we believe that Nic Cage invented a less invasive version of NSA’s Big Brother spyware program?  Find out if Obama was right to call this controversial figure a hacker when you Donate today!

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Snowden

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness

A noble warrior must battle dragons and demons while upholding his moral code as he covertly joins a group of villains to rescue his kidnapped father from Shathrax, the Mind Flayer, who threatens to destroy the world.

Blackhat

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack…

A Minecraft Movie

Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world while embarking…

Swordfish

Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe….

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God

Due to a curse from his former master Profion, Damodar survived his death by Ridley Freeborn as an undead entity in pursuit of an evil artifact for some hundred years, so that he might be capable of unleashing unstoppable destruction…

Antitrust

A computer programmer’s dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina vows to bring equality and prosperity to her land, the evil mage Profion plots to depose her.

Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.

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