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This is the first year of CORONAVIRUS putting the fear of God into us humans :"Year One" directed by Harold Ramis

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..... Year One  (film) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Year One Theatrical release poster Directed by Harold Ramis Produced by Harold Ramis Judd Apatow Clayton Townsend Screenplay by Harold Ramis Gene Stupnitsky Lee Eisenberg Story by Harold Ramis Starring Jack Black Michael Cera Oliver Platt David Cross Hank Azaria Music by Theodore Shapiro Cinematography Alar Kivilo Edited by Craig Herring Steve Welch Production company The Apatow Company Ocean Pictures Distributed by Columbia Pictures Release date June 19, 2009 (North America) Running time 100 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $60 million [1] Box office $62.4 million [1] Year One  is a 2009 American  adventure   comedy film  directed by  Harold Ramis  and distributed by  Columbia Pictures . The film was written by Harold Ramis,  Gene Stupnitsky , an...
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from The Guardian: A third Blade Runner movie is as inevitable as the robot revolution

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If Ridley Scott’s film can get a triumphant sequel after more than three decades, a box-office fizzle won’t stop the series Ben Child @BenChildGeek Thu 30 Jan 2020 08.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 08.02 GMT             ‘Beguiling and enigmatic’ … Ana de Armas and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros H as there ever been a science fiction movie more primed for sequels than Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049? At the end of the Oscar-winning 2017 neo-noir, itself a continuation of the story first told in 1982’s Blade Runner, we are left with more questions than we had in the movie’s opening frame. There is still no definitive answer on the replicant status of Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard (though matters have moved on so swiftly that this barely matters); we have seen little of the replicant uprising that was briefly teased; and the concept of r...
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From The Guardian :'Take that, Mr Hitler': the Jewish roots of superheroes

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'Take that, Mr Hitler': the Jewish roots of superheroes Exhibition at Jewish Museum of Belgium traces backgrounds of heroes including Superman, Batman and Captain America Jennifer Rankin Thu 30 Jan 2020 07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 10.20 GMT A 1977 reprise of Superman’s fight with the Nazis, inspired by his creators. Photograph: DC Comics It was February 1940 when two American friends dreamt up how Superman would stop the second world war. “Put me down! You are hurting me,” Adolf Hitler protests to the man of steel. But Superman has other ideas. Seizing the Nazi dictator, Superman shoots into the air, faster than any plane, to pick up Josef Stalin in Moscow. Next stop Geneva to drop off the “power mad scoundrels” at the League of Nations, where they are found guilty of “unprovoked aggression against defenseless countries”. The cartoon strip How Superman Would End the War appeared in Look Magazine, almost ...
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Inside The Marx Brothers (2003, Documentary)

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The Marx Brothers

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Marx Brothers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the fencing organization, see  Brotherhood of St. Mark . The Marx Brothers Four of the five Marx Brothers in 1931 (top to bottom:  Chico ,  Harpo ,  Groucho  and  Zeppo ) Medium Film,  Broadway ,  vaudeville Nationality American Years active 1905–1949 Genres Word play ,  slapstick ,  musical comedy ,  deadpan Former members Chico Marx Gummo Marx Harpo Marx Groucho Marx Zeppo Marx The  Marx Brothers  were an American family comedy act that was successful in  vaudeville , on  Broadway , and in  motion pictures  from 1905 to 1949. Five of the Marx Brothers' thirteen feature films were selected by the  American Film Institute  (AFI) as among the  top 100 comedy films , with two of them,  Duck Soup  (1933) and  A Night at the Opera  (1935), in the top ...
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