'Blackhat': A Classic Detective Story For A Brave New World

American Sniper and Blackhat. Bradley Cooper commandeers Clint Eastwood's powerful war movie, Chris Hemsworth withers in Michael Mann's cyber-crime misfire. Kurt Loder | January 16, 2015. EMAIL · SHARE. Facebook · Twitter · Tumblr · Blogger 

Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and Wei Tang star in Michael Mann's latest film, the oh-so-timely thriller Blackhat that arrives, amid seemingly endless real-world cyber attacks such as today's shutdown of social-media sites for 

Also opening is Legendary's Blackhat, director Michael Mann's big-budget action-thriller about a cyberattack on worldwide banking systems that the U.S. and China try to stop. Despite its topicality in light of the hacking of Sony 

There were other movies this weekend other than American Sniper, and this will be the place where I discuss them. Sony's The Wedding Ringer opened yesterday with a solid $7 million yesterday, setting the stage for a $20.5m Fri-Sun frame and $23.8m 

SO WHAT IS A BLACKHAT ANYWAY? According to Techopedia, A black hat hacker is someone who attempts to find computer security vulnerabilities and exploit them for personal financial gain or other malicious reasons. There are also white hats, those