FILM 1363: PULP: A FILM ABOUT LIFE, DEATH & SUPERMARKETS

PULP find fame on the world stage in the 1990's with anthems including 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000'. 25 years (and 10 million album sales) later, they return to Sheffield for their last UK concert. Giving a career best performance exclusive to the film, the band share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality - & car maintenance. Director Florian Habicht (Love Story) weaves together the band's personal offerings with dream-like specially-staged tableaux featuring ordinary people recruited on the streets of Sheffield. PULP is a music-film like no other - by turns funny, moving, life-affirming & (occasionally) bewildering.

TRIVIA: The film won the Audience Favourite Award at In-Edit Barcelona in 2014. The worlds largest music film festival.

FILM 1356: VERONICA MARS

TRIVIA: Funded in large part by a campaign on Kickstarter.com, breaking all of the site's records up to April, 2013. Some of the accomplishments were:

Fastest project to reach $1 million.
Fastest project to reach $2 million.
All-time highest-funded project in FILM category.

Third highest-funded project in Kickstarter history.

Most project backers of any project in Kickstarter history.

At the police department, Leo (Max Greenfield) comments that he heard a rumor that Veronica was working for the FBI, to which she replies "another life maybe.." A trailer for the canceled 4th season of the show was released by director Rob Thomas showing Veronica's first few days with the FBI.

In the film, the latest Lotto numbers are shown in several different web-based views (along side the main thing being viewed). The Lotto numbers displayed are actually the final Kickstarter dollar amount that was raised to fund the production.

When Mac comes to Veronica's house and they try to guess her new job, Veronica's dad guesses "clubbing baby seals." Tina Majorino, who plays Mac, starred in the seal movie "Andre" in 1994.

The film's many Kickstarter supporters included detective novelist Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, whose family were huge fans of the TV series. Collins frequently includes Veronica Mars on his list of the greatest private detective TV shows of all time.

FILM 1140: THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS

TRIVIA: The Hot Docs DVD was released on September 13, 2011; the same week the Star Wars trilogies were released for the first time on Blu-ray. New changes were also made to them. This documentary explores the previous changes made to the original trilogy with people's responses and parodies.

Some of the footage came from the website, Star Wars Uncut.