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 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
The Latest
TENET (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
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.
A PASSAGE TO INDIA – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
The movie version, adapted, directed, and edited by David Lean, is an admirable piece of work. Lean doesn’t get in over his head by trying for the full range of the book’s mysticism, but Forster got to him.
EMPIRE OF THE SUN – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
Empire of the Sun begins majestically and stays strong for perhaps forty-five minutes. It’s so gorgeously big you want to laugh in pleasure. Steven Spielberg takes over Shanghai and makes it his city. And then, first in brief patches and then in longer ones, his directing goes terribly wrong.
UMBERTO ECO: THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN IAN FLEMING
In the following excerpt, originally published in Italian in 1965, Eco offers a detailed examination of the narrative formula that Fleming employed in all the Bond novels, a strategy Eco regards as “the basis of the success of the ‘007’ saga. ”
“Don’t settle believing, strive for knowledge”
– Carl Sagan
Comedy
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.
SAM JAY: 3 IN THE MORNING (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Comedian and "Saturday Night Live" writer Sam Jay serves up fresh takes on relationships, travel nightmares, the audacity of white people and more.
JURIES: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – TRANSCRIPT
John Oliver takes a look at why people of color are routinely excluded from becoming jurors, who their absence impacts, and what we can do to create a fairer system.
JACK WHITEHALL: I’M ONLY JOKING (2020) – TRANSCRIPT
Jack Whitehall hits the stage with hilarious tales about happy couples, life in hotels, human stupidity and his well-traveled father.
Cinema
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.
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.
DAVID LYNCH: DUNE (1984) – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL
It doesn’t take long to realize that basically this isn’t a David Lynch movie—it’s Dune. Lynch doesn’t bring a fresh conception to the material; he doesn’t make the story his own. Rather, he tries to apply his talents to Herbert’s conception. He doesn’t conquer this Goliath—he submits to it, as if he thought there was something to be learned from it. He’s being a good boy, a diligent director.
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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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