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# Snowden, Edward Snowden, he’s the dumbest spy in history,
From North, Carolina, he went on to join the CIA,
One night, when he was clearly pissed,
he showed classified NSA documents to a group of journalists,
When you’re, with Ed Snowden, have a gabber-gabber-do-time, a gabber-do-time, you’ll spill all their se-crets! #
(That was to the tune of The Flintstones, and yes, the penultimate line doesn’t really scan)
Seriously, if you haven’t heard of Edward Snowden, then you’ve had your head under a rock for two years, as he spilled the beans to journos in May 2013, and then was amazed when the US government threw the book at him a month later, since you don’t go pising in a pool when you’re fresh out of chlorine.
Snowden, himself, is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with a cast that includes Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Joely Richardson, Rhys Ifans and Tom Wilkinson.
Snowden is released in the US on December 25th, which seems an odd choice for a Christmas Day film, but doesn’t yet have a UK date. Expect the new year.
Check out the trailer below and click on the above image for the full-size version:
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.