Shattered Glass (2003)

Spineless: The Future Films of Criterion

Watch your step, there's Shattered Glass all over the place! Just kidding folks, we’re having a good time here. There’s no shattered glass like shards anywhere it’s actually just a movie called Shattered Glass.

On this week’s episode, The Spineless Boys dive in to one of the most underrated indies of the early-2000s. No lie here: The Boys talk about Hayden Christensen’s transformative performance as Stephen Glass, a serial manipulator and one of the first “fake news” cases on the internet, plus Bad Ape, their love of outdated machinery, and clipping the mic while screaming about character actors. Five Pinocchios.

The Criterion Collection is an ever-growing roster of movies deemed internationally significant on an artistic level. Each new film added to the collection is given a Spine Number, making any film NOT in the collection: SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the Criterion treatment.

• Lies, Damn Lies and Fiction - The original expose on Stephen Glass's lies, as published in the Forbes Digital Tool in May of 1998. Steve Zahn plays Forbes reporter Adam Penenberg in the film.
• Hack Heaven - The piece that brought Stephen Glass down. In the film, Chuck Lane brings Glass to Bethesda to corroborate this story, which of course Glass cannot do
• Spring Breakdown - One of Stephen Glass's fabricated articles, discussed in the film during Glass's meeting with editor Michael Kelly
• SHATTERED GLASS | Vanity Fair | September 1998 - The article on which the film is based

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As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.