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Category Archives: Film
Saturday Matinee: The Little Hours
A raunchy convent comedy loosely based on The Decameron, a 14th century classic By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Source: Spirituality & Practice The Decameron by Giovanni Bocccaccio is a literary classic written in medieval times; it’s a bawdy collection of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Alison Brie, comedy, Cult Film, Giovanni Bocccaccio, Jeff Baena, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, The Decameron, The Little Hours
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Saturday Matinee: 2081
Source: Wikipedia 2081 is a 2009 science fiction featurette which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 29, 2009. It is directed and written by Chandler Tuttle, based on the 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” by author Kurt … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged 2081, Chandler Tuttle, Dystopia, Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut, Science fiction, Short Film
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Saturday Matinee: Spiritwalker
Spiritwalker (2021) Review Director: Yoon Jae-KeunCast: Park Yong-Woo, Lim Ji-Yeon, Park Ji-Hwan, Yoo Seung-Mok, Lee Sung-Wook, Seo Hyun-Woo, Baek Do-Gyum, Woo Kang-MinRunning Time: 110 min. By Paul Bramhall Source: City on Fire It’s fair to say the body-swap plot device … Continue reading
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Tagged Baek Do-Gyum, Korean Film, Lee Sung-Wook, Lim Ji-Yeon, Park Ji-Hwan, Park Yong-Woo, Seo Hyun-Woo, Spiritwalker, Woo Kang-Min, Yoo Seung-Mok, Yoon Jae-Keun
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Saturday Matinee: All Light, Everywhere
Film Review: “All Light, Everywhere” — Darkness Visible By Neil Giordano Source: Arts Fuse Do you trust what you see? How can you? Our eyes are no longer the primary way that we see; they have been swapped out for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, police state, Psychology, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Video
Tagged All Light Everywhere, Documentary, surveillance state, Technocracy, Theo Anthony
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Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
By Adam Mastroianni Source: Experimental History You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. In 2021, only one of the ten top-grossing films––the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy––was an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Film, media, Media Literacy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Art, Corporate Consolidation, corporate media, culture, Economics, film, liturature, Mass Media, media, Media Literacy, music, oligopoly, Pop Culture, proliferation, Reboots, Remakes, Sequels, society, Sociology, spinoffs, Television, Video Games
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Saturday Matinee: Gloria’s Call
Source: GloriasCall.com From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is foreverchanged through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Cheri Gaulke, Documentary, Feminism, Gloria Orenstein, Gloria's Call, Leonora Carrington, Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim, surrealism
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Saturday Matinee: Blue Thunder
Looking back at Blue Thunder John Badham’s high-tech helicopter thriller Blue Thunder rode the crest of a decade obsessed with cool cars and aircraft… By Ryan Lambie Source: Den of Geek Back in the 1980s, a company called Sega perfected … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Thunder, Dystopia, John Badham, Malcolm McDowell, Roy Scheider, surveillance state
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