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Saturday Matinee: First Reformed
Synopsis by A24 Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Spirituality, Video
Tagged Amanda Seyfried, Art, Cult film, culture, Ethan Hawke, film, First Reformed, Paul Schrader
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Saturday Matinee: Faces of the Enemy
Description from California Newsreel: As relevant today as when it was first released, Faces of the Enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he unmasks how individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies to justify the inhumanity of war. Using archival … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, corporate news, culture, Empire, Film, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Saturday Matinee, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Video, war
Tagged corporate news, Documentary, empire, Faces of the Enemy, film, geopolitics, imperialism, Joseph Campbell, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, propaganda, racism, Sam Keen, Sociology, Steven Kull, war
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Cyberpunk is Now and No One Knows What to Do With It
By Pattern Theory Source: Modern Mythology Cyberpunk broke science fiction. Creeping in alongside the commercialization of the internet, it extrapolated the corruption and dysfunction of its present into a brutal and interconnected future that remained just a heartbeat away. Cyberpunk … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, elites, Film, media, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Art, Blade Runner, CD Projekt Red, Code 46, corporatocracy, culture, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077, Dystopia, film, Ghost in the Shell, Hyper-Reality, Keiichi Matsuda, media, Mr. Robot, Neuromancer, Science fiction, society, Technocracy, technology, William Gibson
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Our age of horror
In this febrile cultural moment filled with fear of the Other, horror has achieved the status of true art By M M Owen Source: aeon In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society
Tagged Art, Biocultural, Consciousness, culture, Entertainment, fear, film, Horror, media, Monsters, Morality, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality, the unknown, Zombies
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The Age of Ego
By Dan Corjescu Source: CounterPunch Hegel’s conception of history taught us that the meaning of history was the liberation of the individual through his or her recognition as a fully autonomous rational person. Indeed, since the French Revolution, the Age … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Empire, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Community, culture, Democracy, Ego, elites, empire, film, Global Elite, Globalism, Hegel, individualism, Philosophy, politics, social control, society, State
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Saturday Matinee: An Open Secret
“An Open Secret” (2014) is a documentary film about Hollywood child sexual abuse directed by Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil). The film features interviews with victimized performers, who were targeted when they were young boys (including Corey Feldman and … Continue reading
Revolutionary Terror: Mark Steven’s ‘Splatter Capital’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants Splatter Capital: The Political Economy of Gore Films By Mark Steven Repeater Books, 2017 “Splatter confirms and redoubles our very worst fears. It reminds us of what capital is doing to all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Economics, Empire, Film, History, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Art, capitalism, Cold War, Corporate Globalization, cult cinema, culture, Economics, film, Horror Movies, Marxism, media, Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, politics, society, Splatter Films, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, Violence, war on terror
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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 →