It's The Filmosophers Movie Talk Show, with Chris Busch & Bruce Miller. The Wachowski Brother's created one of our all-time fave films: THE MATRIX. So we've been anticipating their latest creation: SPEED RACER for many months. Currently only 35% of the reviews available on Rottentomatoes.com are positive. The consensus: "Overloaded with headache-inducing effects and without a coherent script." Ouch! Looks like SPEED RACER is no IRON MAN, which is held-over at the Co-Ed Theatre in Fairfield. There are now 178 reviews of IRON MAN on Rottentomatoes, 165 are positive. That's a whopping 93% approval rating for a comic book movie. Filmosopher's co-host Chris Busch will add his review Friday. He'll also tell us about the other film showing at the Co-Ed: the critically O.K.ed (84%) FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, a romantic and raunchy disaster
comedy produced by Judd Apatow, the same team that made such hits as THE 40-YEAR-OLD
VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP.  read more »

Join Pirate Satellite Saturday morning for spiritually expansive, ambient downtempo electronic grooves. We'll hear from Adham Shaikh's Journey To The Sun, incorporating ambient sounds from his trip to India; Biosphere's classic '97 ambient recording Substrata, recorded some 350 miles north of the arctic circle in Norway and it sounds like it. Also from Norway, Green Isac, from Etnotronica. From Craig Padilla's new CD Below The Mountain, a song reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. England's Jon Hopkins with the title cut to Contact Note; Patrick O'Hearn playing the title cut from Slow Time. A song from Thierry David's Zen Pause, a "trip-hop and downtempo journey toward inner peace." Brian Eno with "Blissed" from The Drop. And perhaps more.  read more »

It's the Filmosophers Movie Talk show, with co-hosts Chris Busch and Bruce Miller, where we give our filmosophies on the movies and have filmosophical discussions. Iron Man is opening "on the break" at the Co-Ed Theatre in Fairfield. That means it's officially the start of the summer movie season! Yes, it gets earlier every year, but that's a good thing- a great thing for movies fans. Superstar guest Big Al Green and Bruce- The Big B From St Louie- Miller will have reviews of Iron Man. This film is getting excellent buzz. There are currently 131 reviews for it at Rottontomatoes.com and 124 are thumbs up! A 95% approval rating with over 100 reviews is awesome for a comic book flick! Hear what the Filmosophers think of it Friday afternoon.

New release DVDs this week include The Golden Compass and Julian Schnabel's acclaimed The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.  read more »

Moby plays live in Fairfield Saturday night! My youngest son Shane (9) and I are very excited. I sent Moby a Pirate Satellite compilation 10+ years ago. I've never done that before or since. I don't even know if he got it.

Moby was my favorite musician in the 90's and I still enjoy him very much today. Moby's 1999 release Play remains a seminal electronic recording. His integration of organic, emotional soul into the electronic sound was then- and perhaps now- unmatched.

I'm thrilled that Moby is my son Shane's fave musician. Moby often writes long, spiritually-inspired essays on his liner notes. Check it out.  read more »

Far-out. Right-on & solid. It's the Filmosopher's movie talk show, where co-hosts Chris Busch & Bruce Miller give their filmosophies on the movies and have filmosophical discussions. Friday we're once again honored to be joined by Master Big Al Green. Big Al has several films to review, including Leatherheads, some of which was filmed in his home town and high school in Greensboro North Carolina. Big Al will discuss that and other films, including August Rush "wonderful, you should see it if you haven't already"; Kinky Boots; No Reservations; There's No Business Like Show Business and more. Meanwhile, Chris Busch will have reviews of SweeneyTodd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Before The Devil Knows You're Dead; 21 and more. Bruce will be there as ballast for these two high Spirits.

We love the movies!  read more »

Moby is coming to Fairfield next Saturday, April 26th! My sons Forest (12), Shane (8) and I are quite excited. I remember sending Moby a Pirate Satellite compilation 10+ years ago. I've never done that
before or since. I don't know if he even got it.

Moby was probably my favorite musician in the 90's and I still
enjoy him very much today. His 1993 CD "Ambient" was a benchmark for me. He's
currently Shane's fave musician. I like Moby's music- except the very techno ones- and his spirituality. Moby often writes these long spiritually inspired essays on his liner
notes.

On Pirate Satellite today my son Shane will join me in the KRUU-FM studios, located in the cultural district of Fairfield, Iowa. Together we'll play some of the Moby songs we enjoy.

We hope you enjoy, too.  read more »

Pirate Satellite has been working on Saturday's show over the last 2 weeks. It includes soundtrack music from the film Blade Runner: The Final Cut. The electronic music Vangelis
created for this 1982 seminal film is as good as anything I've ever heard- even 25 years later.

We'll also hear 2 songs from the brand new compilation "Future Memories"; 2 songs from Depeche Mode: Tanghetto's electro-tango (!) cover of "Enjoy The Silence" and William Orbit's "Random Carpet mix" of "Walking In My Shoes". Also featured, a song from Two Loons For Tea, who recently played in Fairfield. We'll hear a cut from the 1981 electronic classic "BGM", by YMO. YMO (orignially Yellow Magic Orchestra) were 3 gentlemen from Japan, including Ryuichi Sakamoto. Among other projects, Sakamoto went on the do the soundtrack with David Byrne to the film "The Last Emperior". I'll post the complete playlist at kruufm.com/pirate-satellite. ENJOY  read more »

Welcome to the Filmosophers' Movie Talk show audio experience. It is hear- and only hear (& There)- where You'll experience Filmosophies on the movies, and have Filmosophical experiences. And as most of You Know: these experinces are as fleeting as "Life" itSelf.

Friday the Filmosophers will relate their experiences of Syndromes and A Century ("A soothing melody saturates the moving images of Apichatpong
Weerasethakul's newest cinematic invention"); Manufactured Landscapes ("From its stunning eight-minute opening shot to the remarkable
documentation of China's Three Gorges Dam, Manufactured Landscapes is
an impressive experience"); My Kid Could Paint That ("It's judgement that defeats us"); Dan In Real Life; The Darjeeling Limited and (maybe) more.

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I am That. Thou art That. All This is Pirate Satellite. Saturday we'll hear songs from the CDs Sutra Spin; Freedom Star; Beautiful World; Wolf Song Night (mixed with an account of a near death experience); Opalescent; From Here to Tranquility and more. Magic Sound Fabric will remind us We Are All Connected. The Spice Barons will opine "the spice expands consciousness... expands consciousness".

Colonel Kurtz will tell us the Truth about judgement.

Have you ever thought about any real freedoms? Freedom from the opinions of others...even from the opinions of yourself? - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

"Freedom" - my final sutra

Welcome to March Madness, baby! It's college basketball's NCAA tounament- which means one of the Filmosophers hasn't been watching many movies. Thankfully, co-host Chris Busch has! Thanks to Chris, we've both seen Blade Runner - The Final Cut "Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director
Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for
the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, the film is set
in Los Angeles in 2019." 

We have reviews of the charming Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, held over at the Co-Ed Theatre. Also opening in Fairfield, The Other Boleyn Girl.

The Filmosopher's DVD of the Week is Enchanted.

Sam: "She has no driver's license, no passports, and no records and I've
called every travel agency and none of them have ever heard of this
place: "Andalusia".  read more »