Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War. 2002 (Full Movie) ( Standing for truth in the smiling face of evil.)
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is a British comedy-drama film from 2002, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi. It is based on a 1993 novel with the same name by Vernon Coleman.
It is the story about a woman, Thelma Caldicot, who is coerced by her manipulative son Derek and daughter-in-law to move into a run-down nursing home, owned by Derek's employer, after the death of her bullying husband. Derek also gets her to sign over her house to him. However, she doesn't like it at the nursing home and shows her frustration. After having been medicated by the staff to stay calm, she finally incites her fellow inmates to revolt.
The Fog | John Carpenter 1980
Film about a curse linked to a town, a fog and a ghost crew. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in Northern California.
Terminator, a masterpiece of predictive programming
Do you think it's more likely that James Cameron, possibly tasked by "higher-ups" to create this movie as predictive programming, or that he was simply deeply attuned to the cultural and technological zeitgeist of the time, drawing on those influences to envision and craft a plausible future? (Not to mention, he reportedly had a high fever and was inspired by an old Outer Limits episode written by Harlan Ellison.)
Do you have a link to said episode, I always enjoy predictive programming films? Thanks
I'll have a look. I haven't seen it myself either
Meanwhile, here's the trailer:-
Not much evidence in this of being the influence for Terminator
Well, you don't have to be a genious or a predictive programming officer of the tavistock institute to come up with something like this, imho
Did it have the equivalent of Cyberdyne, based in the area that became Silicon Valley?
I like it...
Was Silicon Vallery not already emerging as a tech epicenter by 1984?
THE HEALER | Full FAMILY DRAMA Movie HD
A young man suddenly discovers that he has the gift of healing. As he tries to understand it and the new reality it offers, a teenage girl who's about to tragically die unexpectedly shows him the way.
Trailer: He has the gift of healing. Now, he’ll need the courage to use it.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Puppeteer Craig Schwartz and animal lover and pet store clerk Lotte Schwartz are just going through the motions of their marriage. Despite not being able to earn a living solely through puppeteering, Craig loves his profession as it allows him to inhabit the skin of others. He begins to take the ability to inhabit the skin of others to the next level when he is forced to take a job as a file clerk for the off-kilter LesterCorp, located on the five-foot tall 7½ floor of a Manhattan office building. Behind one of the filing cabinets in his work area, Craig finds a hidden door which he learns is a portal into the mind of John Malkovich, the visit through the portal which lasts fifteen minutes after which the person is spit into a ditch next to the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig is fascinated by the meaning of life associated with this finding. Lotte's trips through the portal make her evaluate her own self. And the confident Maxine Lund, one of Craig's co-workers who he tells about the portal if only because he is attracted to her, thinks that it is a money making opportunity in selling trips into Malkovich's mind after office hours for $200 a visit. Craig, Lotte and Maxine begin to understand that anyone entering the portal has the ability to control Malkovich's mind, which also alters his entire being. This experience makes Maxine fall in love with a composite. This ability to control Malkovich's mind begs the question of the ultimate psychedelic trip for Malkovich himself, who begins to feel that something is not right in the world as he knows it.
The following scene is a big spoiler i case you haven’t seen the movie.
Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood (2022)
Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood is a 2022 documentary based on the book National Security Cinema and the Spy Culture website. Sourced from thousands of pages of documents obtained by investigative journalist Tom Secker using the Freedom of Information Act, it reveals how the US military lie to and manipulate people using Hollywood films and TV. From rewriting scripts to pitching ideas to planting military technologies into entertainment products, this is a revelatory tale about propaganda in places you might not expect to find it.
