The Beatles: Rock Band (999)

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/videos/tvcommercial
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/6162227/Video-The-Beatles-Rock-Band---Gadget-Inspectors-review.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/05/the-beatles-rock-band-set-to-hit-stores-september-9-2009/
http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Rock_Band#Development

http://www.911tabs.com/tabs/t/the_beatles/

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http://multiverseextra.blogspot.com/2009/09/nirvana-members-dismayed-by-guitar-hero.html

Capitalism... a Michael Moore film / CRA$H

"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film Sun Sep 6, 2009 By Mike Collett-White {VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday. Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty. "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes. "You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy." The bad guys in Moore's mind are big banks and hedge funds which "gambled" investors' money in complex derivatives that few, if any, really understood and which belonged in the casino. Meanwhile, large companies have been prepared to lay off thousands of staff despite boasting record profits. The filmmaker also sees an uncomfortably close relationship between banks, politicians and U.S. Treasury officials, meaning that regulation has been changed to favor the few on Wall Street rather than the many on Main Street. He says that by encouraging Americans to borrow against the value of their homes, businesses created the conditions that led to the crisis, and with it homelessness and unemployment. Moore even features priests who say capitalism is anti-Christian by failing to protect the poor. "Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we've allowed Wall Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives," Moore told an audience in Venice. "They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in order to create finance and money, support for jobs, businesses, etc." GREEN SHOOTS? Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama's rise to power may bolster it. "Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event," he told a news conference. "If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him." Moore also warned other countries around the world against following the recent U.S. economic and political model. The film follows factory workers who stage a sit-in at a Chicago glass factory when they are sacked with little warning and no pay and who eventually prevail over the bank. And a group of citizens occupies a home that has been repossessed and boarded up by the lending company, forcing the police who come to evict them to back down. The film re-visits some of Moore's earlier movies, including a trip to his native Flint where his father was a car assembly line worker and was able to buy a home, a car, educate his children and look forward to a decent pension. But he brings it up to date with an examination of the financial crisis, demanding to speak to the bosses of companies at the center of the collapse and demanding that banks give back the hundreds of billions of bailout dollars to the country. And he interviews an employee of a firm which buys up re-possessed, or "distressed" properties at a fraction of their original value and which is called Condo Vultures.} http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090906/entertainment/centertainment_us_venice_capitalism -
http://www.capitalismalovestory.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mmflint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism:_A_Love_Story
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CRA$H: The Next Depression?
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyemonday/2009/crash/
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyemonday/2009/insidethemeltdown/

South Africans blown away as aliens invade Johannesburg

{JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African science fiction movie "District_9", already a surprise hit overseas, opened last weekend on local screens to a burst of enthusiasm at the home-grown film that took Hollywood by storm.
In the film, a giant spaceship spins past typical alien invasion targets like New York and runs out of energy over Johannesburg.
The creatures onboard -- called "prawns" in a derogatory reference to the aliens' appearance -- become victims of racism and treated with suspicion and contempt in a parable for apartheid.
Lead actor Sharlto Copley said the entire cast and crew were surprised at the film's success, after it opened two weeks ago at the top of the North American box office.
"I guess it's because it's unusual. It's not your typical Hollywood sci-fi film," Copley told AFP.
Directed by South African-Canadian Neill Blomkamp and produced by Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, "District 9" was made on a 30 million US dollar budget and netted 37 million dollars on its opening weekend in North America.
The film's success overseas made it front-page news in South Africa. When it finally opened here last weekend, it topped the local box office with two million rands (257,000 dollars, 180,000 euros) in ticket sales.
The title "District 9" is a reference to District 6, an area in Cape Town where more than 60,000 non-whites were evicted under apartheid's policy of forcible racial segregation.
In the movie, District 9 is a township-like settlement where South Africa's government wants to relocate the aliens, hiring a private military company called Multinational United to take charge of the operation.
Trouble starts when corporate bureaucrat Wikus van de Merwe, played by Copley, contracts a mysterious virus that begins to change his DNA.
Many viewers saw parallels to last year's anti-immigrant attacks in South Africa, when 60 people died and tens of thousands fled their homes, but Copley said the allusion was unintentional.
"The xenophobic attacks happened a week after we started shooting, it was not part of the story line. We were concerned that the violence would move to Soweto but it didn't," he said.
Viewers said they were pleased that a movie with a distinctly South African flavour had been received so well overseas -- possibly because the political message is far more subtle than the gruesome violence that inevitably unfolds.
"It's a proudly South African film, it definitely lived up to all the hype," said Sharon Hathway, a 21-year-old university student, as she walked out of a Johannesburg cinema on Saturday.
"I could relate to the story line, especially about xenophobia. It was cleverly done not in your face and in a confrontational way," she said.
Unlike many South African films aimed at an overseas audience, "District 9" has no Hollywood stars, using local actors who performed their scenes largely by improvising without a script.
Actors were given a brief about the scene and they had to come up with the dialogue, Copley said.
"We were not working on a script, most of what is said is in impromptu," he said.
"I didn't do any particular research for the character. I found the accent first and the personality came," said Copley.
That left the film peppered with South African slang, which along with scenes shot mainly in Soweto and Johannesburg's inner city, delighted many viewers here.
"The shacks, the lifestyle, even the dark and dusty atmosphere was real," said Sibahle Manana, 35, an office assistant.
Copley said the film succeeded because it raises questions about how society treats people that are different, an issue confronted in various forms around the world.
"The message of the film is universal, that although we are different we are the same," he said.}
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090901/entertainment/entertainment_safrica_film_district9