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Saturday Matinee: Dark Star
“Dark Star” (1974) is a science fiction comedy directed and produced by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O’Bannon. The film originated as a USC film project from 1970 to 1972 and expanded to a feature length project in 1974. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged comedy, Cult Film, Dan O'Bannon, Dark Star, John Carpenter, Science fiction
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Saturday Matinee: Get Crazy
Review by Donald Guarisco Source: AllMovie.com Though it rarely gets mentioned in round ups of rock and roll movies, Get Crazy is one of that genre’s best outings. The script offers a savvy satire of the rock business, put forth … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Allan Arkush, comedy, Cult Film, Daniel Stern, Ed Begley Jr., Get Crazy, Lee Ving, Lou Reed, Malcolm McDowell
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Saturday Matinee: Mike Upchurch short triple feature
Mike Upchurch is a comedy writer who got his start working on Mr. Show and The Chris Rock Show in the late nineties. In recent years he has written, directed and edited a series of short films, the best of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cocktail & Dreams, comedy, Electric Television, Freeway to Hell, Greenboy: Prescription for Death, Mike Upchurch, satire
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Saturday Matinee: That Mitchell and Webb Look (The collected Quiz Broadcasts)
From Wikipedia: The Quiz Broadcast: a post-apocalyptic television quiz show hosted by Mitchell (who constantly reminds viewers to “remain indoors”) and transmitted by the British Emergency Broadcasting System. The show is being aired in the immediate years after “The Event”, … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: American: The Bill Hicks Story
From the film’s official website: Three years in the making, AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story brings the tale of one of modern culture’s most iconic heroes to the big screen. Like many who have a strong sense of their place in history, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story, Bill Hicks, comedy, David Johndrow, Documentary Film, Dwight Slade, Kevin Booth
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Saturday Matinee: John Dies at the End
“John Dies at the End” (2012) is a sci-fi/horror/comedy written and directed by Don Coscarelli and based on David Wong’s novel of the same name. Like Phantasm, it’s a cross-genre cult film involving an inter-dimensional invasion by body-snatching aliens, but … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Clancy Brown, comedy, David Wong, Don Coscarelli, Doug Jone, Horror, John Dies at the End, Paul Giamatti, Phantasm, Science fiction
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High Fives to Jimmy Dore for Laughing Russiagaters out of the Room
By John V. Walsh Source: Dissident Voice Jimmy Dore is a comic who has taken on Russiagate, a deadly serious matter. He is one of those brave souls who count themselves as progressives but dared to call into question Russiagate. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, Humor, media, Media Literacy, news, Podcasts, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Aaron Mate, Cable News, Cold War, comedy, corporate news, Donald Trump, independent media, Jimmy Dore, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, Mueller Report, propaganda, rachel maddow, Russia, RussiaGate, war, Western Establishment Media
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Charlie Chaplin and Truly Modern Times
By Daniel Warner Source: CounterPunch Acrobat, musician, composer, clown, mime, movie star, director and producer, Academy Award winner for lifetime achievement, but still driven from the United States for his backing of the Soviet Union, Charlie Chaplin should need little … Continue reading →