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Independence Day (1996)

Armageddon (1998)

Annalee Newitz looks at the five most prevalent themes in Clinton-era sci-fi. I would have thrown in a shout-out to strippers, who appear prominently in both Armageddon and Independence Day. But then, I’m usually on the lookout for chances to throw shout-outs to strippers.
LIBERTAS accuses “millionaire filmmaker” Morgan Spurlock of ?????? SPOILER ALERT!! ?????? being too chicken shit to actually hunt down Osama Bin Laden and put a stake through his heart.
Bob Rehak contemplates the impact the HD format wars will have/are already having on the porn industry. “How will viewers respond to the pathos and suffering at the industry???s core ??? of capitalism???s antihumanism writ large across the bodies offered up for consumers??? pleasure-at-a-distance ??? when those excesses are rendered in resolutions of 1920??1080?”
NBC has decided that Access Hollywood will be the “news” division to cover the Golden Globes. Defamer mocks the ensuing outrage: “If the network had any interests but its own at heart, it would have made some attempt at incorporating the solemn ritual that usually begins each Globes ceremony–the consumption of Orson Welles’ transubstantiated body and blood in the form of filet mignon and stiff vodka-tonics–as a show of good faith.”