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‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Rooftop Concert to Get a One Night IMAX Event
The Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr Gets the Comic Book Treatment
Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’ Officially Rated PG-13
Memento Men: Why Many ‘Conservatives’ Keep Forgetting Themselves

‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Rooftop Concert to Get a One Night IMAX Event

Posted: 16 Jan 2022 10:25 AM PST

Legendary pop group The Beatles are still regarded as one of the most influential musical groups in history. Generations of musicians have been affected by their music. “Let It Be,” their final record, was rumored to be riddled with troubles behind the scenes.

Peter Jackson studied the development of that album in a new Disney+ documentary called The Beatles: Get Back, which used archive material from a documentary shot at the time the Beatles recorded “Let It Be” and was intended to dispel the myth that the Fab Four didn’t get along during its recording. And now, a portion of that documentary is getting an IMAX release for one night only.

Jackson includes the complete historic 1969 concert from the rooftop of the Apple Corps’ Savile Row headquarters as part of the documentary. On January 30th, the 53rd anniversary of the rooftop concert, a special IMAX presentation of that concert will be shown at select IMAX theaters.

A Q&A session with Peter Jackson will follow the presentation. “I’m happy that the rooftop concert from The Beatles: Get Back will be witnessed in IMAX, on that huge screen,” Jackson stated in a statement to Deadline. It’s The Beatles’ final performance, and it’s the ideal way to see and hear it.”

"Ever since Peter Jackson's beautiful and illuminating docuseries debuted, we've heard non-stop from fans who want to experience its unforgettable rooftop performance in IMAX," says Megan Colligan, president of IMAX Entertainment. "We are so excited to partner with Disney to bring Get Back to an entirely new stage and give Beatles fans everywhere a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch and hear their heroes in the unrivalled sight and sound of IMAX."

The concert, which is included in its entirety in The Beatles: Get Back, will be optimized for IMAX screens, digitally remastered with proprietary IMAX DMR (Digital Remastering) technology. Select IMAX theaters will host the screenings with the filmmaker Q&A broadcast via satellite simultaneously to all connected IMAX locations.

The concert happened on January 30th, 1969. The concert happened over lunchtime, and the crowds were confused, with the police even going so far as to go up and stop the Beatles from performing. The set ended with John Lennon's famous quip, "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we've passed the audition."

By September of that year, Lennon would leave the group. The Beatles would never perform another live show after the rooftop concert. No one realized it at the time, but the 42-minute concert given off the rooftop of the Apple Corps' building was the final concert the Fab Four would have together as a group.

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The Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr Gets the Comic Book Treatment

Posted: 16 Jan 2022 07:55 AM PST

TidalWave Comics is proud to announce the addition of Ringo Starr to its popular "Orbit" comic book series focused on personalities who impact the world. "Orbit: Ringo Starr" was released this week on Amazon.

Written by David Cromarty and illustrated by Victor Moura, this 22-page comic book is available both digitally and in print and can be found on multiple platforms such as Amazon. Both feature a cover by famed comic book artist Graham Hill. The comic book will be available in both paperback and hard cover.

TidalWave has created the comic book biographies on the other Beatles, so now it is time to read about the world of Sir Ringo Starr in comic book form. Read about how overcame life-threatening illnesses during childhood to how he became one of the world's best drummers of all time in The Beatles.

"This comic book has been in the work for years", said publisher Darren G. Davis. "We have done comic books on the other Beatles so this one was a natural one to do for us".

"Tried my best to make the art of this book unique so it had its own voice like it should," said artist Vitor Moura.

The "Orbit" comic book series has been featured in "Rolling Stone" magazine, "Time" magazine, "People" magazine and has featured musical artists such as John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne and more! Take a look here and get your own copy!

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Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’ Officially Rated PG-13

Posted: 16 Jan 2022 05:25 AM PST

The official rating for The Batman has just been released, a few months before the film’s long-awaited premiere. The next DC version of DC’s The Batman has been officially rated PG-13, as expected, according to FilmRatings.com. Because Warner Bros. would want a big-budget film like this to be seen by as many people as possible, The Batman was always expected to be classified PG-13. There were early reports of a R rating, and some fans may have assumed that the popularity of Joker would lead to a similar rating for The Batman.

While the picture isn’t quite violent enough as to deserve a R rating, it does appear to push the PG-13 designation with “strong violent and disturbing content, drug content, strong language, and some suggestive material.”

The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves, stars Robert Pattinson as the newest iteration of Bruce Wayne on the big screen. When a crazed serial murderer known as the Riddler (Paul Dano) begins terrorizing Gotham City, the picture has no link to any other DCEU films and is set in its own standalone universe with no Justice League or anyone else to contact for help. Selina Kyle as Catwoman is played by Zoe Kravits, Oswald Cobblepot aka Penguin is played by Colin Farrell, Carmine Falcone is played by John Turturro, Alfred Pennyworth is played by Andy Serkis, and Jim Gordon is played by Jeffrey Wright.

Much of the recent marketing for The Batman has centered on Bruce Wayne’s friendship with Selina Kyle. While Bruce and Selina have their issues, they may need to work together in the upcoming flick to put an end to the Riddler’s antics. Kravitz has also described The Batman as an origin narrative for her Catwoman, hinting that more will be revealed in the inevitable sequel.

On March 4, 2022, the Batman will be released in theaters. The film will be available to stream on HBO Max 45 days following its theatrical release.

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Memento Men: Why Many ‘Conservatives’ Keep Forgetting Themselves

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 03:25 PM PST

As Conservatism continues its steep decline, its remaining adherents present symptoms of memory failure similar to those of the protagonist in the movie Memento. Like him, these otherwise intelligent and decent people suffer astonishing short-term memory lapses. Unlike in the film, Conservative amnesia is limited to politics.

For example, you can point out that student loans are by nature usurious and therefore impose no moral obligation of repayment. Conservatives will nod and agree that a just society would take steps to make victims of fraud whole. But as soon as democrats renew their empty posturing about student debt forgiveness, those same Conservatives will rush on stage to don their devil horns.

Since dissidents are in a moral war against people who hate us, and our nominal allies suffer memory dysfunction that is easily exploitable by the enemy, periodic reminders of what having moral principles really means are necessary. In the spirit of fraternal instruction, I re-blog the following post.

It's no secret that members of the younger generations, especially Gen Y and the Millennials, lag far behind their parents' financial attainment at the same age. This brewing economic crisis threatens Baby Boomers housing, pensions, and entitlements. Aging Boomers are having trouble finding buyers for their large, single-family homes because younger folks aren't earning enough to have families, much less buy houses.

That's just in the short to mid-term. In the long run, the economic drain of having multiple generations whose standards of living fall far below their parents' invites a disaster to make the 2008 crash look like a picnic.

Understanding the problem gives you the solution. Why are Millennials, Ys, and even Xers economically underperforming?

Is everybody younger than the Boomers possessed of weak character and a shiftless work ethic?

That's not what the data show. Ys and Millennials forfeit more vacation days and work more overtime than Boomers. Most of the differences in generational work habits arise from members of those generations being at different stages in their lives with correspondingly different goals.

Is the earnings discrepancy caused by Millennials choosing majors like interpretive dance and underwater basket weaving instead of tried and true STEM fields?

Again, no. Only 26% of STEM graduates actually work in their field of study, STEM jobs only account for 6% of the US work force to begin with, and the influx of H1 visa workers further increase competition and depress wages. Telling Millennials to get STEM degrees is like telling everyone on the Titanic to cram into a single leaky lifeboat.

A major cause of younger generations' impoverishment, besides the aforementioned insane immigration policies, is the student loan racket.

US student loan debt currently stands at $1.5 trillion. Much of that debt is unrepayable. We're not just talking Starbucks baristas with studies degrees. There are doctors and lawyers pulling down six figure salaries barred from buying homes because their minimum monthly payments exceed mortgage payments for even modest houses. These kids would have to become millionaires to pay down the principal.

Massive fiscals disasters like the student loan crisis don't happen for no reason. Those who chalk the entirety of the problem up to Millennial students being too lazy and stupid to research lucrative majors or the perils of usury are blithely ignoring another problem. The people they glibly assume are too dumb to stave off personal financial ruin will soon be in charge of the nation's finances.

The truth that certain quarters don't want to admit is that these kids were conned. A functioning society relies upon the young trusting their parents, educators, authorities, and elders in general. When absolutely all of those authorities give their charges wrong information and urge them to take actions that later prove ruinous, the correct conclusion is that the students were defrauded.

Based on many of my interactions with self-professed Christian Conservatives, a shocking number of them just don't get this. When you confront them with the reality that these aren't lazy punks deferring their job searches to play Fortnite, but young professionals busting their humps just to tread water, it just doesn't penetrate. The usual excuses they give for ignoring their fellow Americans' suffering are bromides about harming the free market, paeans to individual responsibility, and even snide, "I got mine!" vitriol.

It's that thinly veiled contempt for the young and the poor that outs this cult as thralls of Mammon. Christ exhorted his followers to sell half their possessions and give the proceeds to the poor. He endorsed fraudsters repaying those they defrauded fourfold. Christians are to exercise a fundamental preference for the poor–especially the poor among their own countrymen.

You cannot sneer at someone who is impoverished–even by his own bad choices–and at the same time say that Jesus is Lord with any shred of integrity.

Indeed, defrauding workers is one of three sins, along with murder and mistreating widows and orphans, that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.

That's right, Libertarians and BowtieCons, we have a new Witch Test parameter here.

What sets the Mammon Mob apart from political ideology and into the cult category is its adherents' elevation of practical political matters to articles of faith. Student debt relief is a practical economic measure necessary to stave off catastrophe. It's also so popular with the electorate as to be inevitable. You'd think Republicans would embrace student loan forgiveness out of sheer self-interest.

Millennials are suffering the most under the student debt burden, and they're about to become the largest voting bloc in the country. Whichever party convincingly offers to break their debt shackles is guaranteed to dominate at the polls. Yet when I've pointed out that the GOP is foolish for ignoring this issue, Conservatives have recoiled like vampires splashed with holy water because they say student debt forgiveness violates their beliefs.

It's the exact same aversion to winning and wielding political power you see from Republicans on the immigration issue. And once again, they invent a false principle out of inaction instead of acting on the genuine moral principles of justice, prudence, and compassion.

Politics is the art of the possible. It is about winning elections and then using that political power to help your friends and crush your enemies. The Death Cult gets this. The Mammon Mob unwittingly helps them by refusing to use their last scraps of power even to help themselves.

Student debt forgiveness is going to happen. The only choices afforded Conservatives is whether to jump in front of the parade to implement debt forgiveness on their terms, or to keep doing nothing, hand this winning issue to the Death Cult, and let them continue leading Millennials into socialism. And as go the Millennials, so goes America.

Republicans have to wake up and propose their own serious student loan forgiveness plan. It's a rare case in which the politically savvy move is also the moral course. We'll see what happens, but based on the BoomerCons' screeching, I'm not holding my breath.

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