Orson Welles Cinema

10/28/2024

Keeping this crazy election season in some sort of perspective, Boston SciFi has dropped its latest podcast: "WE APPROVED THIS MESSAGE: Presidents on Film." Listen in as film programmer Melissa Starker & director David Giancola join Garen Daly dig deep on films like Idiocracy, The Hunger Games, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Independence Day and more.

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As this crazy election draws to a close, Boston SciFi grabbed some clips from film where US Presidents are featured. There's Fifth Element, Idiocracy, Indepe...

10/26/2024

Their motto is "Democracy Dies in Darkness". It should come with an asterisk which leads to the caveat, "journalism lives in fear." I canceled my Washington Post subscription today because of their abject cowardice and failing to stand up to democracy. Another sad day in America.

The Washington Post planned to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump before owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, decided against it, the newspaper reported.

10/20/2024

The KitKat showing her boredom.

10/08/2024

Boston SciFi Presents just dropped its latest podcast. It is called UNIVERSAL MEMORIES: The Films of Philip K Dick. Listen in as author/director Hope Madden and film programmer Melissa Starker look at Blade Runner, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau and more. It is about memory, implants, and which reality is real, you know, Hollywood high concepts from a writer 40 years ago.

Memory implants, replicants, alternative realities, and fake reality - these are some of the elements that make stories by Philip K Dick resonant decades aft...

10/03/2024

Sitting in a Starbucks in Boston where the register asks me to tip before I get my food. So I gave tip. Then the food came. It was very messy and smothered in grease. Tipping is for good service and good food. It should not be when you order at a counter and there is no service. Modern tipping is seemingly plagued by entitlement.

10/01/2024

So tonight we had a "living wake" for Pi. Her boyfriend Milo came by to say goodbye as did Linda, Luke, Courtney, Sarah and Kayden. For two plus hours Pi got tons of love, specially made venison dog bones and her ass scratched. What a good way to go? Thanks to everyone who came and thanks to everyone who have wished her well. She was a good girl.

09/30/2024

Paella "Pi" MacLeod. Boy, this critter made me laugh, but tomorrow, we say goodbye.

09/28/2024

Check this out. Boston SciFi's latest podcast has dropped.
Here's the info.
Sydney Festival Fest Director Simon Foster & author Dan Kimmel join Garen Daly on Boston SciFi Presents. This episode is entitled ALIEN PROBES & OTHER DISTRACTIONS, a look at UFOs and the critters that visit us from time to time. Some come with rays guns, some are furry and some have long digits.

They talk Paul, Mars Attacks!, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Attack the Block and more. Watch on our YouTube Channel, and please subscribe. Thank you.

Visitors from another world are a relatively recent theme in movies that started in the 50s. Since then we hav...

09/05/2024

So Russia is sending millions of dollars to conservative factions. Can we assume that Russia has America's interests at heart? Or more likely, they see conservatives as anti-democracy agents of dissent? What do you think?

The DOJ's description matches that of Tennessee-based company Tenet Media, which funds videos made by conservative influencers.

08/13/2024

Director Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) once highlighted his most overrated films. See attached article. As usual, these are quite subjective, but what would you say are some other overrated movies?1

An X user has pointed out an interview Park Chan-Wook conducted with Korean outlet Kino where he actually named the most overrated films of all-time, and he even goes as far as to rank them!

08/09/2024

Just saw this and immediately wondered, are the Democrats reappropriating Freedom & the American Flag from the MAGAhats?

08/08/2024

Folks at the MausHaus aka have big smiles. They are finally making a profit. So to celebrate they are raising streaming fees and cracking down one password sharing. Isn't that nice?

Overall advertising revenue grew 8% for the media company.