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Charlie work, Zora's zombies and still normalizing cannibalism + this day in history w/"Liberty Or Death" and our song of the day by CeCe Winans on your Morning Monarchy for March 23, 2017.

Drinkable sunscreen, honest grocery stores and praising plastic surgery + this day in history w/the McMartin Preschool indictments and our song of the day by Dude York on your Morning Monarchy for March 22, 2017.

Mass meditations, sex slaves and the next march + this day in history w/Charlie Chaplin's body and our song of the day by Presentable Corpse on your Morning Monarchy for March 2, 2017.

Sing for peace, spin the black circle and open the BitChute + this day in history w/the telegraph system and our song of the day by Elbow on your Morning Monarchy for January 6, 2017.

In this month's podcast for patreon subscribers I review Rogue One: A Star Wars Cash-In. The film is a spy movie/war movie about the rebellion stealing the plans for the Death Star and has a much darker tone and grittier visuals than most Star Wars films. The problems arise mostly in the lack of characterisation, which the producers tried to compensate for by jamming in as many visual references to the existing films as they could.

Disputed news, semiotic 'Silence' and 8-bit maestros + this day in history w/"New World Symphony" and our song of the day by Justice on your Morning Monarchy for December 16, 2016.

In less than 10 years Marvel has created the biggest money-making film franchise of all time with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, this probably wouldn't have been possible without the help of the Pentagon. In this episode we examine the rise of the MCU, the Pentagon's involvement, and the fallout of their disagreements when making The Avengers.

The first two Iron Man movies are far more important to cinematic history than their daft scripts, super-arrogant star performer and cartoonish presentation might suggest. Between them they made over $1.2 billion worldwide and established the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has since become the biggest film franchise of all time.

Now it all makes sense...

The Department of Energy has a minor but interesting role in the history of Hollywood, providing shooting locations for Tron (1982) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I am still awaiting documents on Star Trek but the DoE have provided me with another of their records on Tron - a kind of in house making of video.(Read more...)