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Elysium Tries To Look Like Tomorrow But Misses The Metaphor

Blockhead Robot

by Liam Scheff Elysium, the Dark Knight Rises, World War Z, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and every upcoming sci-fi action-adventure apocalypse film are all trying to tell us something: our way of life is threatened – and may be ending. And I tend to agree with that message. But they all miss the central metaphor. [...]

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This is the Marvelous JoyCamp

This is the marvelous JoyCamp. My dear friends in Lost Angles – but don’t hold that against them. I loves ‘em. This is their submission for the Alex Jones video contest. Don’t forget to get the DRONE APP for your iPHONE!! And don’t forget: Don’t drive and drive! Remember: GOOOOO CIIIAAA!! And don’t forget to [...]

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The Avengers – Mind Control at the Movies

By Liam Scheff theintelhub.com September 26, 2012 “The Avengers” is out on video this week. Youtube is already full of clips, and you can own your very own digital disk for between twenty and forty or fifty dollars, depending on how many “branded” pieces of plastic  you want to accompany your purchase. The film is directed [...]

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My Five Favorite Movies That No One Else Will Like

Not that you asked, but. Klimt – A surrealist time-bending tale of the life of the truly great artist Gustav Klimt; the narrative structure will drive most people to distraction. The whole thing seemed true to me. John Malkovich is as perverse as he can possibly be, and it’s so wonderfully effective. And damn it, [...]

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Idea for a Movie

Idea for movie: Girl meets boy; they’re cute and clever. Boy doing well until concept of safe sex comes up. She doesn’t care, but doesn’t say why. He gives her a hard time, asks her if she doesn’t believe in STDs. She says she does, but says you can see an STD. He says, What [...]

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Anonymous – Will it Change Your Mind, or Make You Care?

Anonymous – Will it Change Your Mind, or Make You Care? A Movie Enticement, by Liam Scheff If I told you the Earth was shaped like a pear, would you believe me? You’d say, “No, it’s round!” And you’d be right. Except that Earth is ever-so-slightly pear-shaped. If I told you so, would you be [...]

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Unmasking The Real Shakespeare

by Liam Scheff It’s been said that if a lie is told often enough, it begins to sound true. And so, you can bet that a fib that has been repeated for four hundred years may be hard to shake off. On Thursday’s Robert Scott Bell Show (10/20/11), RSB and Liam Scheff speak with Mark [...]

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The Komen Race for the Cure PSA – with the TSA!

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The Singing Vaccine

What is in a vaccine!?

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Electro-Biology to the Electric Universe – Video

Stars and planets are born electrically. Lightning is the electrical equalization of the planet with space, not ‘ice crystals rubbing together in clouds.’ And life itself is an electrical, field-directed event, not a gene-determined, reductionist dead end… Liam Scheff and Robert Scott Bell talk about the paradigm-cracking new science of Electro-Biology – electricity shaping the [...]

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Hollywood Bets on the Swan (to Live)

Investors are sizing up Hollywood (The American Propaganda Machine, West Coast Division) for an offer it can’t refuse…. From the NY Dog Trainer: “Both the Cantor futures exchange and Veriana Networks would allow investors to buy or sell — or “short” — contracts based on a movie’s box-office receipts, in essence betting on how well [...]

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An Antidote to Avatar

Have you been out to see the greatest movie ever made? “Oh, Avatar! It’s the best movie I’ve EVER SEEN! It’s about US! We, the oppressed people!!! US!!! US!! MEEE!!!! MEEE!!!!”

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Avatar – An Early Non-Review

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Yes, this is it – the moment all the world has been held in hushed silence for! The streets of Iraq will burst into safety and joy, Afghanistan will bloom green and poppy-free, and Detroit will burst into 4 part harmony on every street corner! Yes! It’s HERE! it’s James Cameron’s approximately 450 million dollar [...]

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House of Numbers

House of Numbers, a 2009 Documentary by Brent Leung (IMDB) takes on the most controversial human rights and human health issue of the last fifty years. Asking the un-askable, questioning the un-questionable, Mr. Leung uncovers the mass of information about HIV testing and the AIDS diagnosis that is daily suppressed by government and media, and [...]

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Watchmen – Sublime Nihilism or Over-Rated Fever Dream?

It’s a maze of a story, a comic-book-cum-novel about some troubled-to-psychopathic people who like to dress in Halloween drag (the story’s superheroes), and fight… well, whatever.

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Film Reviews

Divine Intervention Directed by Elia Suleiman; Featuring Manal Khader, Elia Suleiman Boston’s Weekly Dig June 2003 No one’s ever cared much about Palestinians, so it’s not surprising that Elia Suleiman’s artful Palestinian film Divine Intervention was refused acceptance into this year’s Academy Awards. But don’t blame the Oscar committee. From Colonial Britain to Imperial America, [...]

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School Of Rove

By Liam Scheff GNN December 2004 – Thinking of a master plan Bush’s Brain, the 2003 book and film by veteran journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater, and directors Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob, lays out, with compelling bi-partisan evidence, the wake of destruction left by Bush’s long-time campaign and political director, Karl Rove. Rove [...]

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Blind Spot – Hitler’s Secretary (Im Toten Winkel)

Traudl Junge

– The woman in question “The older I get, the greater a burden I feel that I worked for this man and actually liked him…he was criminal and I just didn’t recognize it,” confesses Traudl Junge in “Blind Spot – Hitler‘s Secretary.” Junge met Adolph Hitler when she was a fatherless, impressionable teenager. By 22 [...]

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