Raiders, Back to the Future, and Aliens would be in my 100+ views.

Too late capitalism is the new news.

Franz Neumann’s Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1945.

archive.org/details/behe...

Hell yes

But I don’t understand your defense of it as a tool.

If most of your publications are articles then they likely wouldn’t appear in Worldcat, which aren’t really catalogued there. And there are numerous examples of LLMs producing made up sources. That seems like a much bigger problem than the fact that no database contains everything.

Square cut Detroit style is a thing of beauty in a different way.

I have had students who have assumed that what we were reading was by the guy who created STAR WARS.

Later, Duke works for Donald Trump and after Tiananmen he sends Duke to Beijing to extract Honey who was arrested as a dissident. This is also how Duke and Honey end up married.

In a more recent vein, Three Kings depicts Iraqi Kurds (I believe they are specified as such but they may just be Iraqi dissidents) in a positive and heroic manner. And 13 Hours depicts some of the allied Libyan militias as perhaps heroic?

I’m unable to actually see this but I’m curious to see what kind of reaction it gets: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/a...

To be fair, he was also a producer on Fury Road.

Fuck. He was my MA advisor. So smart and so generous.

It is.

Hell yeah. I need to design a course that would allow me to teach this.

I taught action cinema last semester and it is remarkable the degree to which that material is essential for understanding the present.