‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie

A reminder of Steven Spielberg’s prowess and speed in the latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches Steven Spielberg was never much of a radical. While Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now and even George Lucas attacked the Vietnam war with Star Wars, the nervy new Hollywood hotshot was more interested in moviemaking’s toys than its politics. In Peter Biskind’s bestselling book of Tinseltown gossip, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the actor Kit Carson remembers r...

By James Harvey