BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Follow-up film to the 2006 comedy centering on the real-life adventures of a fictional Kazakh television journalist named Borat.
“The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.”
― Bill Mollison
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THE SUPREME COURT: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – TRANSCRIPT
In the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, John Oliver discusses the future of the Supreme Court, why the government doesn’t always represent the political leanings of the electorate, and how those issues will impact the next generation of Americans.
THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.
THE THIRD MAN (1949) – TRANSCRIPT
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
MICHAEL MCINTYRE: SHOWMAN (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Britain’s biggest-selling stand-up comedian of the past decade finally brings his first comedy special to Netflix, filmed just before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live comedy.
DUNE IS SLOW GOING BUT APT TO STICK IN THE MIND
In the following review, Wilmington assesses Lynch's use of dark, obsessive, and bizarre visual imagery in Dune, noting that the film as a whole is not necessarily successful.
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LYNCH, DIRECTOR OF “DUNE”
The filmmaker who tamed "The Elephant Man" undertakes the grandest vision of them all—the realization on the screen of the epic universe created by Frank Herbert.
“Don’t settle believing, strive for knowledge”
– Carl Sagan
Comedy
MICHAEL MCINTYRE: SHOWMAN (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Britain’s biggest-selling stand-up comedian of the past decade finally brings his first comedy special to Netflix, filmed just before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live comedy.
RNC 2020 & KENOSHA: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – TRANSCRIPT
John Oliver discusses a week that saw the Republican National Convention, a horrific series of shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and a strike in professional sports -- three stories that are really one story, about race in America.
BORDER WALL II: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – TRANSCRIPT
Nearing the 2020 election, John Oliver checks in on one of the key promises of President Trump’s 2016 campaign: the border wall.
ROB SCHNEIDER: ASIAN MOMMA, MEXICAN KIDS (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Comedian Rob Schneider gives viewers a look at his family and personal life through humorous anecdotes about potty training his young daughters as well as his own pig potential and a surprise duet performance with his daughter.
Cinema
LOVE AND MONSTERS (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
In a monster-infested world, Joel (Dylan O'Brien) learns his girlfriend is just 80 miles away. To make the dangerous journey, Joel discovers his inner hero to be with the girl of his dreams.
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET – TRANSCRIPT
David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
― Karl R. Popper
The Underrated and Overlooked
FUTURE BOY CONAN (1978): HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S EARLY MASTERPIECE
This seminal work of Japanese master of animation Hayao Miyazaki, Future Boy Conan (Mirai Shōnen Konan) is a post-apocalyptic anime series, consisting of 26 unforgettable episodes packed with action, drama, humor.
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