Following up their discussion of fake binaries on the Jerm Warfare podcast, Kit Knightly joins Jeremy Nell on his TNTRadio show to talk something lighter – movies. Have we seen a decline in the standard of mainstream films? How has the rise of “virtue marketing” impacted the end product? Are movies simply just an establishment …
Claire O’Driscoll Despite an apparent shift in the mainstream narrative to the crisis in Ukraine, the Irish State’s Covid-19 propaganda war rages on. Popular TV shows, like RTE’s diet & fitness series Operation Transformation, are to be found on the frontline of this battle for hearts and minds. “We need to sing again. We need …
Max Parry Editor’s Note – This article was written, and submitted to us, before the Taliban’s take-over of Kabul. In May, the HBO television network aired a new two-part documentary exploring America’s ongoing opioid epidemic entitled The Crime of the Century. The first episode summarized the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the crisis, specifically …
JR Leach It is 20 years since the premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I’d argue that it is one of the most masterful, respectful and meticulous literary adaptions ever made. Fast forward to 2021, and Amazon is producing The Lord of the Rings as a big-budget …
Edward Curtin Once upon a time in my youthful naiveté, I would mock those who said they believed in out-of-space aliens and flying saucers. In my hubris, I even wrote an extensive academic paper saying that the popularity of science fiction and the myth of planetary escape provided by the UFO cults and the media …
Kit Knightly This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting JRR Tolkien’s Lord of Rings. Next weekend is the Tolkien Society lectures. And later this year it’s possible Amazon’s Lord of Rings television series might be released. All those things …
Max Parry Eighty years ago last month, the Axis powers invaded the former Yugoslavia during the Second World War. A new Serbian film, Dara of Jasenovac, depicts the systematic extermination of Serbs which followed under the Nazi-puppet government of the Independent State of Croatia. Despite consultation with reputable historians during production and a screenplay based …
Edward Curtin In his new, six-part, seven hours plus documentary – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World” – the celebrated English documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, who has worked for the BBC for decades, tells us that nothing makes sense anymore and it is… pointless to try to …
Sometimes something is just so unfair you have to take a moment to correct the record: Gina Carano didn’t say anything racist, and was not fired for saying anything racist. She was fired for being just a bit of an outsider. For thinking for herself, and expressing those thoughts.
2+2=5 is an award-winning Iranian short film written and directed by Babak Anvari. First released in 2011, but arguably never more relevant than today, it is a beautiful concise and powerful rebuke of totalitarianism. Free speech and free expression have perhaps never been so threatened by groupthink as they are today. Watch and share widely. …
