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joining me right now, ann hornaday herself and "new york magazine's" film critic david edelstein.e of you i always agree with, two i sometimes agree with. thank you for joining us. you know who you are. kevin spacey, a middle level guy or person is celebrated as a central figure. and i thought somebody's finally figured out washington. it is the coos. it is the staff directors. it is the campaign guys who really run this place. >> it's true. it's like here is to the talentless hacks that are finally getting their day in the sun. it's funny. it reminds me a little. we did have precursors to this when you think about it. it is hitting some critical mass. it harks back to the documentary from several years ago "the war room" that introduced us to future stars james carville to the world. >> let's forget something else inspired by "the war room" was "the west wing". >> of course. and soderbergh's "k street" which i think softened the ground for these. but it is a fascinating -- >> david, let's broaden it beyond the territory of this town. to david. is this something like the celebrati

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david edelstein reviews the oscar-nominated film amour.an visits a young chicken farmer with pluck and more. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 27th of january, 2013. from southern brazil comes news of a huge nightclub fire. firefighters in the town of santa maria say at least 245 people were killed inside the club. hundreds more were hurt. it is not yet clear what started the fire. it's been a weekend of bloodshed in chicago. six people were shot dead in the city yesterday. two of the killings happened just blocks from an antigun rally. among the victims was a 16-year-old boy. another gun-control rally took place in washington yesterday with thousands marching calling for stricter weapons laws. the senate is preparing to begin debating the issue this week. hackers have taken aim at the department of justice. yesterday a group known as anonymous took over the u.s. sentencing commission's website. they say it was a response to the suicide earlier this month of aaron swartz. he is a computer prodigy who was facing up to 45 years

. >> david edelstein, great to have you with us. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. and that is "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, ed p. >> good evening, ed. thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there were quite a few laugh out loud moments in the last election. but most of them, honestly, were from the republican primaries. come on. very few of the laugh out loud moments from the last election involved president obama himself telling a laugh out loud deadpan joke. but it did happen once. >> i think governor romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. we have ships that go underwater. nuclear submarines. >> ships that go underwater. after that moment in the third presidential debate last year ther