In the lineage of real-life David-and-Goliath movies in which intrepid seekers of the truth investigate malfeasance in high places, ''The Whistleblower'' deserves an honorable mention. This earnest film may not be as dramatically coherent or as gripping as ''Serpico,''''All the President's Men,''''Erin Brockovich'' and ''Silkwood,'' to name four...
The ancient Greeks had a shorthand for the mental anguish of war, for post-traumatic stress disorder and even for outbursts of fratricidal bloodshed like last week's shootings at Fort Hood. They would invoke the names of mythological military heroes who battled inner demons: Achilles, consumed by the deaths of his men; Philoctetes, hollowed out...

If anyone looks as if he might be in the possession of a troubled soul, it's the actor Paul Giamatti. With his doubting eyes and gently defeated posture, he tends to come across as a man carrying a burden, though one not necessarily or wholly of his making. You can almost see the distress resting heavy and hard on his sloped shoulders, pushing out...
David Russell Strathairn (født 26. januar 1949 i San Francisco, Californien, USA) er en amerikansk filmskuespiller.
Strathairn debuterede i John Sayles' Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), og har ofte spillet i denne instruktørs film, bl.a. i Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991) og Limbo (Grænselandet, 1999). Han havde fine karakterroller i bl.a. The Firm (Firmaets mand, 1993) og L.A. Confidential (1997), og et kritikerrost portræt af journalisten Edward R. Murrow i George Clooneys Good Night, and Good Luck (2005).