Just started this, dunno how it'll turn out. But it's kind of neat to see a depiction of later samurai, long after their swords had rusted in their scabbards and they had to find real jobs. It seems pretty light hearted so far. Crappy jobs, every day heroism, overbearing grandparents, and dreams that are just out of reach.

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, I still have a few leftover horror movies from October uploaded, so let’s keep the ball rolling with Titane (2021). It is a French body horror centering on a woman who, as the result of a childhood car crash injury, has a titanium plate fitted into her head; as an adult, she develops a fetish for cars, which leads her on a strange and often-surreal journey. Oh, and did she mention she’s also a psychopath who likes killing people? A whole lot of bloody encounters ensue from there. Director is Julia Ducournau, who also did Raw (2016), which we watched a couple of weeks ago; this is her other most-well-known film.

After that is Paterson (2016), a bloomer rom-com from Jim Jarmusch, about a New Jersey couple consisting of a bus driver (Adam Driver) and his artist wife, and their slice-of-life antics as they follow their work routines and maintain their relationship. A simple, warm movie about love. Yep, that’s it. Despite that, it has received quite a bit of critical acclaim. Jarmusch has a good record on Hextube, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Titane: https://letterboxd.com/film/titane/
• Paterson: https://letterboxd.com/film/paterson/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Titane: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/553878
• Paterson: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12999

CWs for Titane

• Body horror.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Abusive parents.
• Stalking.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Slapping of woman.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Sexual harassment of woman.
• Implied (but not shown) sexual assault.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Someone is crushed to death.
• Choking.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Body horror.
• Squashed head.
• Genital trauma, though it is not shown onscreen.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bines.
• Seizure.
• Finger mutilation.
• Torture.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Stabbing.
• Blood and gore.
• Death of child.
• Sexualization of character that other characters believe to be underage (although the character is an adult.)
• R-slur.
• Drug overdose.
• Death of parent.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Shower scene.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Razors.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Mental illness.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Suicide attempt/
• Unstable reality.
• Misophonia.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Suicide.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Crying baby.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Babies.
• Childbirth.
• Abortion.
• Death of pregnant person.
• Ableism.
• “Man in dress” jokes.
• Misgendering.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Age-gap romance.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sex.
• Implied incest.
• Honking horns.
• Car crash.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Paterson:

• The canine actor who played the protagonist’s dog died during post-production. The film is dedicated to the dog.
• Finger injury.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Bittersweet ending.

Links to movies:

• Titane: https://tankie.tube/w/wCt71TotEjuec2yfvLJcJr
• Paterson: https://tankie.tube/w/gs7mmVNCt7VXBjkQTSZ9Kj

Trump talking about Nope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SedyC_DxuQ&t=6237s

Trump talking about Watto, kyber crystals and the trade federation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SedyC_DxuQ&t=6308s

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, I was asked for more horror, despite the passing of Halloween. November 6 is close enough, isn’t it? We’ll start with X (2022), a slasher about a group of 1970s youths who go to the middle of nowhere in Texas to make a porno. Unfortunately for them, the old people hosting them discover what they are doing, and suddenly, the crew starts being brutally murdered, one by one. Will anyone be spared? I guess we’ll find out. Director is Ti West, who also did the film’s prequel, Pearl (2022), which was released a few months afterward. I guess we’ll have to watch that one, too.

After that is The Adventures of Chatran (1986), the Japanese tale of a kitten and a dog who make their way through the wilderness together, and then are separated, and then risk everything to find each other again. It contains no dialogue except for some voiceover narration. It looks adorable. In 1989, it was cut down, rescored, and given a new, snarkier dub under the title The Adventures of Milo and Otis. We are watching the original, unabridged Japanese version, featuring its original score by the renowned Ryuichi Sakamoto. This is the most notable work of director Masanori Hata, who also worked on Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989).

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• X: https://letterboxd.com/film/x-2022/
• The Adventures of Chatran: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-adventures-of-milo-and-otis/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• X: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/875758
• The Adventures of Chatran: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/864762

CWs for X:

• Stalking.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Dead animals.
• Sexual assault: a woman hugs a man without his consent.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Death by crushing.
• Body horror.
• Squashed head.
• Achilles tendon injury.
• Nudity.
• Corpses.
• Broken bones.
• Tooth damage.
• Finger mutilation.
• Torture.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Cheating.
• Jump scares.
• Shower scene.
• Audio gore.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Claustrophobia.
• Shaky cam.
• Flashing lights.
• Age gap romance.
• Sex.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Adventures of Chatran:

• The film is subject to a long-standing rumor that a whole bunch of cats died during production. This claim is probably bullshit, as no investigations have turned up any evidence, and both American and Japanese animal-rights groups signed off on it. Nevertheless, some of the stunts in the film probably scared the animals.
• Animal endangerment.
• Animal corpses (not real ones.)
• Sad animals.
• Snakes.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Babies.
• Childbirth.

Links to movies:

• X: https://tankie.tube/w/vxwYe3JrnUC6rbtgjjv3wM
• The Adventures of Chatran: https://tankie.tube/w/aDwKQkzn1pfuQCoRgvuQG5

Trailer med norsk tekst https://dovesmediatv.no/video/730464-salt-and-pepper-offisiell-trailer

Trailer with English subtitles https://dovesmediatv.no/video/730463-salt-and-pepper-official-trailer-(english-subtitles)

I'm disappointed it took over a week for this news to reach me! Hell, I'm disappointed I didn't hear about this movie before it premiered! This is HUGE for the Deaf community of Norway and really the world in general. Actual theatrical feature films where most or all of the dialog is in a sign language, where ≳95% of the cast and crew are Deaf, are already incredibly rare for more widely-used sign languages. Certainly even more rare for a sign language like Norwegian Sign Language, which, let me remind you, is the first language of only about 4,000 people (and second language of ~11,000 people)

After avoiding anything Marvel for 16 years, and the films aren’t what I would call good, but the character of Black Widow is just a blatantly flawed. First, her name: Natsha Romanoff. It should be Romanovna. Second, she war born in 1984. She was in the KGB. The USSR dissolved in 1991. ????

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The visual cuisine for tonight for tonight will be three more episodes of the Harley Quinn anime. It is about Harley Quinn embarking on her own adventures after dumping the Joker.

After that it will be Gamera 3 Revenge of the Iris due to popular demand: in the final movie of the trilogy Ayana finds a large egg that hatches into Iris, a monster that the flying turtle Gamera views as a threat.

8 pm est

content warnings:

Harley Quinn

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/21892?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Cartoon violence, gore, and death
• Profanity
• An episode has a few slurs
• Domestic violence/abusive relationships
• Gaslighting
• Child abuse
• Frequent mentions of sex
• Objectification of women
• A dog dying is mentioned
• A cat dies
• Drugs and alcohol
• Addiction
• Animal death
• Giant spiders
• Implied SA
• Cutting, e.g knife fights
• Eye mutilation
• Death of children
• Kidnapping
• Death of a parent
• Cheating in a relationship
• Clowns
• Electro-therapy
• Needles and syringes
• Scenes in a mental institution
• A mentally ill person is violent, most notably the protagonist as well as multiple recurring characters
• Flashing lights
• Fat shaming
• Antisemitism
• Ableism
• Alcoholism

https://tankie.tube/w/3WCm5A1DUhdLRuXAnCbCQd; https://tankie.tube/w/qgoShAopxDS3UrfpTEoSoC; https://tankie.tube/w/jFpnkuojBYLX7tKRMnsiEM

Gamera 3

• Slight profanity
• Violence
• Blood & gore
• Depictions of corpses
• Mass destruction
• Giant monsters
• Tentacles
• A human is absorbed
• Dead animals
• Brief scene of school bullying
• Scenes with a cult
• A gamer is suicidal
• A cocoon is cut out

https://tankie.tube/w/jKfuq4dzYypNNnK2fazSyz

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Laapataa Ladies (2023), a comedy about two arranged brides in rural India who inadvertently swap places on a train, and the wacky antics that ensue from there, including some satire of Indian gender relations and the caste system. This is by far the best-known film to date of Indian feminist director Kiran Rao, and received excellent reviews, so let’s check it out.

Next is Kiss Me Deadly (1955), a noir-thriller about a man who picks up a female hitchhiker, only for the car to be ambushed and the woman tortured to death. The dude goes on a rampage of revenge as he seeks to get to the bottom of the conspiracy, which centers around a briefcase containing a nuclear bomb. Everyone seems to want to get that damn briefcase, so the protagonist joins in the action. Director is Robert Aldrich, who is best-known for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), though this is considered arguably his magnum opus, and one of the best noirs of the 50s.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Kuroneko: https://letterboxd.com/film/laapataa-ladies/
• Kiss Me Deadly: https://letterboxd.com/film/kiss-me-deadly/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Laapataa Ladies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21626284/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Kiss Me Deadly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Laapataa Ladies:

• Domestic violence.
• A woman is slapped.
• Arranged marriages.
• Profanity.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Stalking.
• Missing loved ones.

CWs for Kiss Me Deadly:

• Kissing.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Torture.
• Hand trauma.
• Fistfighting.
• Car crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Laapataa Ladies: https://tankie.tube/w/h2h2vWJSCKS38LMPtyJL1y
• Kiss Me Deadly: https://tankie.tube/w/o9uriH7W4fKXmjBxFdXGBX

Saw The Substance last night. There was a boomer couple sitting a couple rows down, and I whispered to my wife “think they’ll walk out?” And she mentioned that they didn’t know what the movie was, because she had seen them choosing the movie sorta at random at the box office, after considering two other movies.

So I was sure we were in for a treat, because I had heard the movie was pretty gnarly. Well boy was I disappointed:

Night ruined!

Jokes, movie was pretty good, very clever style/audio, and some good absurd body horror. I was expecting to be more grossed out, but maybe I’m more desensitized than I thought, it felt more cartoonish in terms of gore so it was easy to chuckle at.

I have never seen this movie and I'm wanting to check it out because I'm trying to figure out how to deal with living life in full view of a genocide. I hope it's not full of liberalism, anyone want to comment? please use spoiler blocks, comrades.