Joel Kinnaman will be on Jon tonight to talk about his eponymous role as RoboCop which The Guardian says doen't quite live up to the 1987 original with Peter Weller though I find it hard to imagine how it could be much worse. I find it reads much better than it is.
RoboCop includes themes regarding the media, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity, dystopia, and human nature.
For me it was just another hyperviolent cop movie dressed up as SciFi.
Stephen has Godfrey Reggio a community activist from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Reggio co-founded La Clinica de la Gente, a facility that provided medical care to 12,000 community members in Santa Fe, and La Gente, a community-organizing project in Northern New Mexico's barrios. In 1963 he co-founded Young Citizens for Action, a community organization project that aided juveniles among the street gangs in Santa Fe. In 1972, he co-founded the Institute for Regional Education in Santa Fe, a non-profit foundation focused on media development, the arts, community organization, and research.
Reggio has been involved in many progressive political causes in the United States, including work for the American Civil Liberties Union, co-organizing a multi-media public interest campaign on the invasion of privacy and the use of technology to control behavior.
He'll probably focus on his recent film project,
Visitors, which "reveals humanity's trance-like relationship with technology, which, when commandeered by extreme emotional states, produces massive effects far beyond the human species."
The score is by Philip Glass with whom he's worked frequently before.
Now tomorrow we have repeats with Bill de Blasio and Pussy Riot. I suppose I'll put something up just to re-establish my rhythm. Monday we have 2 more mystery repeats and then the rest of the week looks like this-
The Daily Show
* Tuesday 2/18: Kevin Spacey
* Wednesday 2/19: David O. Russell
* Thursday 2/20: Ronan Farrow
The Colbert Report
* Tuesday 2/18: Brian Greene
* Wednesday 2/19: Alexander Payne
* Thursday 2/20: Stanley McChrystal