{"id":629856,"date":"2026-06-09T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629856\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:35:09","slug":"disclosure-day-review-steven-spielbergs-flimsy-alien-drama-is-like-a-drab-x-files-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629856\/","title":{"rendered":"Disclosure Day review: Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;flimsy&#8217; alien drama is like &#8216;a drab X-Files episode&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Josh O&#8217;Connor stars as Daniel, a cyber-security boffin who works for a powerful organisation called Wardex. The organisation was set up to keep information about aliens secret \u2013 so, yes, on one level Disclosure Day is a rehash of Men in Black, except without the jokes. Daniel decides to reveal \u2013 or rather disclose \u2013 this information, but first he has to drive around for a while with his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson), waiting for the go-ahead from his associate, Hugo (Colman Domingo). Absurdly, Hugo insists that Daniel shouldn&#8217;t just put the information online. Instead, the videos he has stolen should be shared via\u2026 errr\u2026 a local television news channel. In Spielberg&#8217;s mind, it seems, the world hasn&#8217;t moved on since ET: The Extra Terrestrial came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh O&#8217;Connor stars as Daniel, a cyber-security boffin who works for a powerful organisation called Wardex. The organisation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}