Thanks for dropping by my small corner of the Fediverse.
I'm a proud Aussie living near the beautiful Canadian Rockies with my family.
I like listening to audiobooks and #podcasts, watching #movies, dabbling in iPhoneography, tinkering with #Linux or #SecBSD, going on family adventures, and supporting my favourite football ā½ teams in Australia, Scotland, Germany, and North America.
Iāve just finished reading Space Odyssey, a fascinating account of how Stanley Kubrickās masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was created. If you have any interest in that great film, or in science fiction movies, or the history of movies in general, or even just in well-written absorbing nonfiction, then I highly recommend this book.
If youāre still confused and donāt understand whatās happening with the Hamas-Israel war (the genocide in Palestine) watch Starship Troopers.
Itās around to watch freeā¦
Just look at IDF propaganda videos vs the satire propaganda ones in Starship Troopers. Theyāre almost the same. Thatās very scary! Itās scarier that most people arenāt picking up on it or think itās normal advertising.
@halcionandon@DenimsTV@palestine Apologies in advance for the wall of text, but I have seen people bring up Starship Troopers a lot the past few months.
I don't know how much media literacy is going to help here. I think people need to come to terms with the reality of modern journalism being devoid of content on the ground without a military ride-along, making it indistinguishable from the State Department stenography most of the press performs.
Verhoeven can make a good action flick, but even he lamented the incoherent message of this film was lost on the audience.
Is that surprising considering the coed shower scene was supposed to emphasize to us these people were more fascist because they were able to be around each other without letting lust consume them? It's a kind of George Orwell incoherent take on fascism being about suppressing the author's desires instead of performing a historical analysis of it as a counteraction against anticapitalism. I'm not even sure that's adequate since here it supports colonialism which is keeping Palestine from even developing the capitalist mode of production.
Controversial #Trump movie āThe Apprenticeā depicts him as #rapist
[probably because he is one]
A movie called āThe Apprenticeā about a young Donald Trumpās rise to power premiered Mon evening at the #Cannes Film Festival, the #film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump & Jeremy Strong, who plays the ruthless lawyer & political fixer Roy Cohn.
āBy & large, it is a very dark & chilling origin story.ā
As they were making the #film, director #AliAbbasi said he had many people question why he would choose #Trump as his subject matterā¦.
āā¦there is no nice metaphorical way to deal w/the rising wave of #fascism,ā he said. āThereās only the messy way ā¦ the way of dealing w/this ā¦ on its own terms, on its own level ā¦ good people have been quiet for too long ā¦ itās time to make #movies relevant. Itās time to make movies #political again.ā
#OnThisDay, May 16, 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots fled to England seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I (depicted in Mary Queen of Scots, 2018)
Saw THE BEEKEEPER (2024) last night. I, of course, loved this movie. I will watch anything with Jason Statham (I'm not the only one as it turned out after the movie was over last night. š).
I also got a kick out of the movie as a medievalist. Apparently, there is a secret society of assassins called Beekeepers, who protect human civilization based on the idea that it is like a beehive.
Very sad news for movie lovers: the legendary Roger Corman has died at age 98. Here's a tribute to him from Variety. Tell us what you loved about Corman in the comments.
@franciscawrites@bookstodon El Sur/ The South by Adelaida Garcia Morales was made into a film of the same name by her then husband, Victor Erice. OK, technically itās a novella, but at 50 pages Iāve read longer short stories. I actually started reading the novella last night, because I love the film, but finances were pulled from the movie production before the final third could be made, and Iāve always longed to find out what happened.
Today, May 1, 1973, Police Sergeant Neil Howie finds that he is unable to leave remote Hebridean island Summerisle. The island residents celebrate May Day with pagan rituals (The Wicker Man, 1973)