While exact plot details remain closely guarded, the new “Starship Troopers” is said to draw inspiration from Heinlein’s original military story, rather than pulling from the fascist send-up that characterized Verhoeven’s satirical adaptation.
Yeah, you don’t want to send up fascists today…
(Wonders if The Great Dictator and Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers would make a good double-bill.)
Great film, even if not the most scientifically realistic. When lockdown came, binged on this, Containment, Residue etc.
Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield
When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes’s Shaft title track get all the attention, but it’s basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn’t hold up nearly as well.
But Super Fly is a whole album’s worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.
Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!
My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:
My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn’t get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!
Admittedly not original compositions, more a “greatest soul hits of the 70s” compilation.
The engaging story, painstaking animation, and box-office success of “Ne Zha 2” have inspired a great deal of pride among the Chinese movie-going public, not to mention birthing a plethora of memes, trends, and social-media hashtags. But this surge of pride has also resulted in the suppression of critical takes on the film and the buzz around it: some critical articles have been deleted from social media platforms, and Chinese bloggers and reviewers have reported being criticized or attacked online for expressing dissenting views.
HEAVY ONLINE CENSORSHIP OF ARTICLES CRITICAL OF ANIMATED CHINESE BLOCKBUSTER “NE ZHA 2”
For a nanosecond, I somehow understood the headline as “Audio Galaxy Still Accessible”. Which really would be impressive.
I only just realized that my search plugin in qBittorrent isn’t giving me any results from TGx.
Thanks :)
Hi, brief reddit user just joined (to derisk/decouple from the enemies of democracy). Thanks for doing all this! (The instance, the guide, I just joined the Fedecan Pixelfed, too.)
It’s good to support democratic values with our purchases.
But I wonder, for example re smartphones, how many of these alternatives are just European badges on a collection of parts made in China (even less of a democracy than Trump-ruled USA).
Taking Punkt as an example, I did various Qwant searches and came no closer to finding out where their phones and/or components are actually manufactured. (Very clear where the company is headquartered; “Swiss” and “Switzerland” are mentioned every 10 words :D , .ch domain, office in Lugano. But they never say that’s where the phones are manufactured.)