There are a multitude of talented British film directors who could produce a wealth of intelligent films if only they could get the financing.

But rather then financing intelligent scripts, great performers & intelligent directors, the British film industry finances Nick Love to make endless films about football hooliganism usually starring the ultimate Chav Danny Dryer.

Yep Nick Love has a new film out which is a remake of Alan Clark's The Firm. But when Clark made such films as Scum, Made In England & The Firm it was as means of illustrating the realities of Thatcher's Britain as means of criticism, Nick Love makes films such as The Football Factory which sensationalize & revel in the Chavy lad culture of hooliganism.

Anyone here a Fawlty Towers fan?  John Cleese seems to be a dumb ass socialist in real life but he is absolutely brilliant in Fawlty Towers.

I don't know if they still have it,

but I remember ABC world news used to have a cube shaped "bizarro earth" graphic in the background.

wonder what sort of twisted subliminal message they we're sending with that?

Karl Hess:Toward Liberty

Not the best quality video I'm afraid but you still can get what Karl Hess was about & he was certainly an interesting guy who had a lot of good things to say but I'd imagine somebody will tell me he was a socialist because he liked solar power or something.

AMC has the remake trailer up for viewing.

The Prisoner : Coming to AMC, November 2009

I've heard there's a Bill Hicks biopic in the pipeline to be directed by Ron Howard & starring Russell Crowe.

I think Bill would be turning in his grave at the prospect.

Here you want find out about Bill Hicks you don't need a fucking biopic you just need to check out Bill Hicks in his own words.

The guy was practically a phophet as far as I'm concerned.

Just watched it last night - a trippy little debut from Gerogie Boy Lucas (of STAR WARS fame etc.).

Basic plot has a Robert Duval starring as THX 1138, a man who comes off his government prescribed meds in a futuristic hyper-nanny/ totalitarian state, where freedom is completely curtailed in every sense.  

You all have got to see it! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DPeCXV5bI

Anybody seen the entire series I've only seen the first couple of episodes which were engaging

I guess explaining the premise of Dragons Den might sound burying to some but in fact Dragons Den delivers real drama.

Basically the premise is an entrepreneur pitches their business or idea for business to four venture capitalists who then ask questions & then decide whether to invest etc.

I love this programme because it does illustrate there is an entrepreneurial spirit alive in Britain & I know the series has been sold around the world there are versions in Canada & Australia as well as Russia & Nigeria.

I thought here in Britain the show might have been axed or put on hold due to recession & though it hasn't been it will be interesting to see how the attitude of venture capitalists has changed due to the present economic state

 Torchwood comes to BBC1 with a 5 night special (yep 5 consecutive nights) & from the trailer it does look good if not somewhat of a rip off of The Village Of The Dammed.

I've heard that Russell T Davies is incorporating into the plot commentary on Zimbabwe, well if anybody deserves a good dose of satire its Robert Mugabe.  

Have any of you watched this show?  What a trip!  DJ Lance is a freaky looking black man with an orange track suit and fuzzy orange hat.  He's got himself some funky spectacles.  He comes out with his boom-box, which he opens up, and takes out these japanese monster dolls/ a la Godzilla (or for you art/wrestling fans Kai-ju Big Battel).

He places the little dolls in their habitats (they call them "lands").  And then they come to life.

Started watching on hulu, and i'm enjoying it. The most recent episodes have been fleshing out the backstory (as the cliched term goes), and now I see that Tim Minear and Jane Espenson are aboard.

The show could take on a very wide pro-liberty scope soon. Looking forward to more.

Be Seeing You!

Gard posted one of these videos to the main page a little while back. You might enjoy some of these other amusing rants:

http://www.froggyrants.com/

I didn't know where else to put this.

Check out this wac flash video game, where YOU decide who get's the bailout funds, and who doesn't.

http://www.addictinggames.com/trilliondollarbailout.html

Steep is a documentary about the orgins and history of "extreme" skiing.  I think there are a lot of parallels between "extreme" sports and market based activism in todays centrally planned society.  In the 1970's and 80's you couldn't ski out of bounds in the United States, and you definitely couldn't make a film of people choosing to ski out of bounds.  Many of America's top skiiers went to the Chamonix valley to finally be allowed to ski the way they wanted to, taking all of the risks.

I couldn't find a better section to post this since there isn't an 'Art and photos' section and Movies and Television is the closest thing to visual media.

Anyhow, I made these a while back. Enjoy

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Pep/Historical-Contest/lysander_spoone...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Pep/Historical-Contest/samuel_adams.pn...

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Pep/Historical-Contest/patrick_henry.p...

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8483043749360519713&ei=7euBSa27FJaWiQL80MGmCw&q=The+Power+of+Choice+-+The+Life+and+Ideas+of+Milton+Friedman&dur=3

90 minute Documentary on the great man's live

"It's taken them 21 years, but this Easter the crew of  Red Dwarf will finally return to Earth in a two-part special which reunites many of the original cast."

Here's the full article.

Nice!

I was at the cinema yesterday watching the new Underworld film which was okay but nothing worth writing. However I saw this trailer http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R3orQKBxiEg & that trailer alone is something to write about.

For those who don’t know Watchmen is the greatest comic book/graphic novel ever written, ask anybody about comic books & they’ll tell you it’s a masterpiece & the comic book equivalent to Citizen Kane.

Just posted at the repairmanjack forum... What do you think?