#OnThisDay, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)
‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’. J Oliver Conroy's insightful article about the counterrevolution - the comeback of physical films, many good reasons why people go back to physical discs and why people regret decluttering their DVDs. 246 comments already, most agree.
Some thoughts on Charles Laughton Directs ‘The Night of the Hunter,’ a very fascinating shot-by-shot, making-of documentary included on the Criterion Night of the Hunter blu-ray. https://boxd.it/65wN49
Today, March 18, Seattle high schooler David Lightman teaches his friend Jennifer Mack about war dialing, hacking, phreaking, and the importance of infosec (WarGames, 1983)
#OnThisDay, March 9, in 1954, journalist Edward R. Murrow reported on the “Red Scare” investigation of Communists led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The broadcast, known as “television’s finest hour”, ultimately led to McCarthy's downfall (Good Night, and Good Luck, 2005)
❤️ Brewster’s Millions — Classic comfort movie that I watched many times on TMC (at least I think that was the name of the channel) as a kid.
❤️ Sullivan’s Travels — I have a hard time hearting this movie, despite its reputation and my appreciation of Sturges, because of the awful, sentimental scenes at the end where Joel McCrea laughs uproariously at the cartoon. It gets dangerously close to being the preachy, self-regarding thing it’s satirizing.
Today, February 19, in 1998, hacker Trinity fends off two units of police officers and faces off with sinister sentient computer programs known as Agents (The Matrix, 1999)
#OnThisDay, January 27, in 1967, a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test killed all three crew members of moon mission Apollo 1, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee (depicted in From the Earth to the Moon, s01e02, "Apollo 1", 1998)