Category: #DeepFocus
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Movies and Mind Control: ‘American Ultra’ w/Andy Colvin
‘American Ultra’ is a 2015 action comedy about the CIA’s MK Ultra operations. Join two West Virginians for an uncontrolled conversation about the movie that makes mind control rock.
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#NavigatingNetflix: ‘The X-Files’ Revival w/Jay Dyer (Video)
This month’s episode of the soon-to-be-renamed ‘Navigating Netflix’ series features a wild conversation with Esoteric Hollywood’s Jay Dyer on the well-timed return of the cult television series and cultural phenomenon, ‘The X-Files’.
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#NavigatingNetflix: ‘The X-Files’ Revival w/Jay Dyer (Audio)
This month’s episode of the soon-to-be-renamed ‘Navigating Netflix’ series features a wild conversation with Esoteric Hollywood’s Jay Dyer on the well-timed return of the cult television series and cultural phenomenon, ‘The X-Files’.
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Video: #NavigatingNetflix – ‘The Hunger Games’ w/Eric Mueller
Are ‘The Hunger Games’ a prescient look into our possible future as a “shattered union” – or just another blast of corporate agitprop? Eric Mueller from the Tragedy & Hope community joins us this month on Navigating Netflix to examine the films and our future.
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Audio: #NavigatingNetflix – ‘The Hunger Games’ w/Eric Mueller
Are ‘The Hunger Games’ a prescient look into our possible future as a “shattered union” – or just another blast of corporate agitprop? Eric Mueller from the Tragedy & Hope community joins us this month on Navigating Netflix to examine the films and our future.
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Video: #NavigatingNetflix: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ w/Bob Brunner
Holiday classic or Commie propaganda? This month’s Navigating Netflix looks at Frank Capra’s 1946 film ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ with guest Bob Brunner.
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#NavigatingNetflix: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ w/Bob Brunner
Holiday classic or Commie propaganda? This month’s Navigating Netflix looks at Frank Capra’s 1946 film ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ with guest Bob Brunner.
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Video: #NavigatingNetflix w/Paul Verge on ‘House Of Cards’
Here’s a video excerpt from the reboot of ‘Navigating Netflix’ w/Paul Verge on ‘House Of Cards’.
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#NavigatingNetflix: ‘House Of Cards’ w/Paul Verge
We’re really excited to reboot the long-dormant ‘Navigating Netflix’ series with Paul Verge of Divergent Films who’s elected, if you will, to talk about ‘House Of Cards’ as the handbook for political depravity on this re-inaugural episode.
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‘Wrecking Crew’ Film Great Homage to Studio Musicians of the ’60s
‘The Wrecking Crew’ an homage to studio musicians of the ’60s | bozemandailychronicle.com: “In the 1960s, a group of studio musicians were behind the scenes crafting the sound and feel of dozens of popular bands. Danny Tedesco, son of the late Tommy Tedesco, one of the well-known guitarists of the group known as the Wrecking…
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#NinaSimone Documentary: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’
What Happened, Miss Simone? · TV Review · The A.V. Club: “Upon introducing herself to Martin Luther King Jr., Nina Simone didn’t begin by telling him who she was, but rather who she wasn’t. “I’m not non-violent,” a stone-faced Simone said to America’s paragon of passive resistance. King smiled politely and told the esteemed jazz…
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#OITNB: Making Prison Kooky and Adorable?
Orange is the New Black Season 3 review: Why did the show lose all its darkness?: “Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, the third season of which arrives in its entirety on Friday, is a quintessential dramedy. Set among inmates at a low-security women’s prison, the series has addressed racism, solitary confinement, overdoses, and predatory…
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How Netflix’s New @Daredevil Series Makes #Torture Into a Virtue
from reason.com: The Daredevil series on Netflix is about how one man, alone and with right in his heart, can change a city for the better using only one weapon: torture. Politically the Daredevil series, based on the long-running Marvel comic about a blind superhero whose alter-ego is a criminal defense lawyer named Matt Murdock,…
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.@EbertMovie, ‘Life Itself,’ a Beautiful Take On Film
from nytimes.com: “Life Itself,” Steve James’s documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, is in many ways like a wake at which intimate acquaintances warmly recall their departed friend in all his aspects, foibles and quirks along with his talents and triumphs. Deep currents of love and sorrow flow under the succession of often funny…
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‘Our #Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is @StonesThrow Records’
from netflix.com: Storied independent label Stones Throw Records is the subject of this enthusiastic documentary that recounts the company’s roots and personality.