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If anyone's looking for a good movie to watch, here's the trailer for Stalker from 1979. Based off the 1972 novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, it's a Soviet sci-fi movie about a character known only as "The Stalker", who ferries people to a restricted area known as the "Exclusion Zone", where there is a room that supposedly grants people their deepest desires. It was also the inspiration for the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Usually, whenever I have "movie night", I tend to watch 70s-80s action/exploitation/grindhouse movies. However, this month, I've been doing something a little different, what I call "Jeanuary". Basically, I've been watching the movies of the late Jean-Luc Godard, and the most recent one I watched was Alphaville, starring Eddie Constantine as secret agent Lemmy Caution. I thought it was a very good movie because not only did it have elements of film noir, but it even used a couple of tropes from the 70s-80s movies I like so much. I would DEFINITELY watch again!

So anyways, here’s another Sonic fic I’m doing, which is essentially a parody of a rather infamous high school fic. Depending on whether or not you read the fic in question, you may be able to recognize the source material.

OK, so I wanna talk about this anime movie I saw in theaters back in October. It’s called Human Lost. For those of you who have been living under a rock since before then, it’s an adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s best-selling novel “No Longer Human”, but updated to a future setting. It seems to have gotten mixed reviews, and while I do think it could have been better, I liked it. It was released on home media in Japan today, and according to Right Stuf Anime, a US release should be coming on August 25 of this year.

Having decided to take a break from doing Driver-style remixes of Sonic music, I decided I’d share this obscure disco gem with you folks. It’s a disco version of John Barry’s theme from the 1979 Disney sci-fi movie The Black Hole, as performed by a band called Nostromo. A project of English producer/songwriter/recording engineer Kenny Denton, Nostromo started off by releasing a disco version of Jerry Goldsmith’s theme from Alien. Nostromo also did a disco version of “The Imperial March” from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. For more information on Kenny Denton, visit www.kennydenton.co.uk