Category: #DeepFocus
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Computer Code in Films: Hidden Meanings or Irrelevant Nonsense?
from theguardian.com: Ever wondered what those Matrix-style green holographic codes that flicker across computer screen in films actually mean? You know, those seemingly complex algorithms in The Fifth Estate and unbreakable cryptograms in Doctor Who? Well, programmer John Graham-Cumming has the answer. “I was watching the film Elysium and some coding came up as the…
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2014 #Oscar Predictions: Best #Documentary Feature
from indiewire.com: The documentary feature shortlist is out. And that has effectively narrowed the race down to 15 contenders. From them, critical and commercial hits “20 Feet From Stardom,” “Blackfish” and “Stories We Tell” are looking very good for nominations, but you never know in this historically unpredictable category. Penn & Teller could be an…
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How #Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
from theatlantic.com: If you use Netflix, you’ve probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it’s absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life? Foreign Satanic Stories from the 1980s? If Netflix can show such tiny slices of cinema to…
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Japanese Films Thump Hollywood at 2013 #Japan Box Office
from variety.com: Japanese pics again delivered a solid thumping to the Hollywood competition at the local box office in 2013. The 2013 B.O. champion, to the surprise of nobody, was anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki’s final animated feature, the WWII-themed “The Wind Rises.” Debuting atop the B.O. on July 21, the film, based on the prewar…
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Apocalypse Theater: 7 Signs of the Apocalypse
Why not get into an apocalyptic mood – after all, it’s 2012? Paul McGuire, an author and producer, who lives in Los Angeles, shares aspects of his own spiritual journey in article, “Totalitarian State Mind Control Wars: Part I”. “This war is not a new war; it is a mind control war that goes back…
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#NavigatingNetflix: Episode 2: ‘Idiocracy’
In this episode of Navigating Netflix, the team looks at the brilliant comedic satire “Idiocracy” and examine its plot of a future humanity that has been dumbed down to the point of near-uselessness.
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Pilot Episode: ‘The Experiment’
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the pilot episode of ‘Navigating Netflix’ – appropriately titled ‘The Experiment’. Our first film is a 2010 dramatization of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment – the 1971 study that was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in which volunteers took…
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‘Navigating Netflix’ – Coming Soon!
Netflix subscribers often find diamonds in the rough – films that illustrate history & reality – but aren’t marketed or organized such that you can easily find what’s valuable. Coming soon from Media Monarchy & Tragedy and Hope: ‘Navigating Netflix’ – the show designed to prioritize your time for movies that feed your mind!