Fear City (1984), martial arts serial killer stalks strippers, from the man who brought you Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer.

B-Movie Bonanza: https://lemmy.ca/post/41252146

Awesome!

I remember going to the Scala cinema in London in the 80s for a Troma all-nighter: Toxic Avenger 1 & 2 (and maybe 3), Troma’s War and Rabid Grannies!

Looking forward to this!

Wonder Woman. Every trite moral lesson from all 7 seasons of Star Trek: TNG crammed into one movie.

While exact plot details remain closely guarded, the new “Starship Troopers” is said to draw inspiration from Heinlein’s original military story, rather than pulling from the fascist send-up that characterized Verhoeven’s satirical adaptation.

Yeah, you don’t want to send up fascists today…

(Wonders if The Great Dictator and Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers would make a good double-bill.)

Great film, even if not the most scientifically realistic. When lockdown came, binged on this, Containment, Residue etc.

Every time you load the page, the hosts (“Provided by…”) change. Mostly.

Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield

When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes’s Shaft title track get all the attention, but it’s basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn’t hold up nearly as well.

But Super Fly is a whole album’s worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.

Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!

My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:

1. I was a sucker for 90s action, especially with a hip-hop angle.
2. It’s been three decades since I’ve seen it (but been listening to the soundtrack pretty much ever since).

My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn’t get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!

Admittedly not original compositions, more a “greatest soul hits of the 70s” compilation.

The engaging story, painstaking animation, and box-office success of “Ne Zha 2” have inspired a great deal of pride among the Chinese movie-going public, not to mention birthing a plethora of memes, trends, and social-media hashtags. But this surge of pride has also resulted in the suppression of critical takes on the film and the buzz around it: some critical articles have been deleted from social media platforms, and Chinese bloggers and reviewers have reported being criticized or attacked online for expressing dissenting views.

HEAVY ONLINE CENSORSHIP OF ARTICLES CRITICAL OF ANIMATED CHINESE BLOCKBUSTER “NE ZHA 2”

Thanks for the info.

Zen: On one machine, Flatpak. On the other, AppImage through AM. Firefox: Mint-maintained version from Mint repo (deb).

I can’t remember the exact differences between Firefox upstream and Mint version. But I believe Mint began maintaining their own deb at a time when upstream Ubuntu was only offering Firefox as a snap, which Mint is against, and Mozilla hadn’t yet begun offering their own deb repo.

https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut

No package for my distro, I “installed” an AppImage with AM (which is also how I discovered it)

I’ve been using the Firefox mod Zen Browser on Linux Mint. When Firefox released an update in February, my Zen had it the next day. People depending on the “official” Firefox were left waiting over a week, with multiple threads in the forums asking “when is it coming?”

Also when I looked into mods updates for a critical security fix in November, practically all the mods had updated within 24 hours of FF’s update. (Exceptions: Midori and Mercury.) https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2554267&sid=4f140800c5d62939af8e6394514b9aab#p2554267

“Zen is no good if you care about privacy.”

How so?

Used Webkit until 2019, then bought out and now based on Firefox/Gecko.

There are tools to update AppImages, like AM and Gear Lever.

Well, you can get Bottles as an AppImage… unofficially https://github.com/ivan-hc/Bottles-appimage

Personally I’m loving diskonaut. “Graphical” representation but at, ahem, terminal velocity.