Elysium
By Heordredenn: Film Review: Elysium, written, directed and co-produced by Neill Blomkamp, released August 2013. It is 2154. The Earth is an overpopulated, impoverished, environmentally degraded ruin, with civilization falling apart. But high above a vast, silver-white wheel structure hangs in the sky, the last island of peace, order and civilization, the great orbital habitat Elysium, now home to the global elite of the cosmopolitan super-rich. That is the premise of South African director Neill…
Film Review – 300: Rise of an Empire
Brace yourself because THIS IS SPARTA! Again. The first 300 movie ranks among my favourite films of all time, less due to its cartoonish stylised gore offering as its wonderfully unapologetic masculine heroism. When I walked into the cinema this week to watch this follow-up I really didn’t know what to expect as I’d read nothing at all about it before hand. My assumption was that it would be a sequel but the story began…
Book Review: Convergence of Catastrophes by Guillaume Faye
Why are catastrophes wishful thinking? by Benjamin Noyles Criticized for his “extremism” by Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Faye was a founding intellectual of the New Right whose ideas and methods are so fashionable today. Now that Convergence of Catastrophes has been translated from the original La Convergence des catastrophes (2004) courtesy of Arktos, we can actually make a proper analysis of this thinking, now that a decade has nearly passed – but from the results it…