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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Toni Erdmann (2016), a comedy about a prankster dad who reconnects with his adult daughter and starts bombarding her with dad jokes. He then takes things one step further by pretending to be her boss’s life counselor. Wackiness ensues from there. Dad Jokes: The Movie. This is considered one of the best German films of this millennium; it is by far the best-known and best-regarded work of director Maren Ade.

After that is Pariah (2011), an LGBT drama about a black lesbian teenager in Brooklyn who must come to terms with her budding attraction to other women as she navigates her highly homophobic social milieu. Her mom, especially, proves to be an obstacle toward her self-acceptance. It is the best-received film to date of director Dee Rees. Excellent reviews for this one, so let’s give it a whirl.

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

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Letterboxd:

• Toni Erdmann: https://letterboxd.com/film/toni-erdmann/
• Pariah: https://letterboxd.com/film/pariah/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Toni Erdmann: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4048272/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_pl_pg
• Pariah: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14328

CWs for Toni Erdmann:

• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Masturbation.
• Penis.
• Profanity.
• Drug use.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Blood.

CWs for Pariah:

• Abusive parents.
• Domestic violence.
• Child abuse.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Homophobia.
• Homophobic slurs.
• N-word.
• Misgendering.
• Sex.

Links to movies:

• Toni Erdmann: https://tankie.tube/w/dQwYBosLboi7fH4SG5ffWd
• Pariah: https://tankie.tube/w/3B9E2auzNaTF5et7TaGdtx

Tell me someone else watched it. The opening entered my brain today. Enjoy

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, there’s no special theme, just two more good flicks. First up is The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), a mystery-thriller about a stuntman (Ryan Gosling) who uses his motorcycle-riding skills to rob people and thereby support his family. The cops start closing in, and things escalate from there. Director is Derek Cianfrance, who also made Blue Valentine (2010), which we have not yet watched. Great reviews for this one, so we’ll check it out.

After that is Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), an Edo-period chanbara film about a trio of ronin who team up with a band of shifty peasants in their rebellion against their former lord. Soon after this, their interests start to diverge, and infighting and backstabbing follows from there. Expect a lot of swordfights. Director is Hideo Gosha, who is otherwise best-known for Goyokin (1969), which we previously watched. This is considered one of his best films.

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

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Letterboxd:

• The Place Beyond the Pines: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-place-beyond-the-pines/
• Three Outlaw Samurai: https://letterboxd.com/film/three-outlaw-samurai/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Place Beyond the Pines: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12098
• Three Outlaw Samurai: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058652/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_pl_pg

CWs for The Place Beyond the Pines:

• Gaslighting.
• Child abuse.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Broken bones.
• Death by falling.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Cheating.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Hospital scene.
• Shaky cam.
• Crying baby.
• Sex.
• Car crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Three Outlaw Samurai:

• Cutting of flesh.
• Swordfights.
• Prostitution.
• Implied sex.
• Torture.
• Alcohol.

Links to movies:

• The Place Beyond the Pines: https://tankie.tube/w/6xe8XrR2j5yuZHYNE5bPNo
• Three Outlaw Samurai: https://tankie.tube/w/4BEsCZzqYBwfoExf6o73xb

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980), a Hong Kong action-thriller about a quartet of youths who plan a bombing for the hell of it, and then, upon seeing the chaos they have inflicted, feel emboldened to try even more audacious acts of terrorism. Will anyone stop these sickos? I guess we’ll find out. Director is Tsui Hark, the guy behind Green Snake (1993) and Peking Opera Blues (1986), both of which we previously watched. This is considered one of his best films.

After that is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), the big-budget adaptation of the ubiquitous fantasy tabletop RPG that asks, “what if we made a Marvel movie, but with D&D stuff?” Yes, expect a whole bunch of quips and other action-comedy silliness as a band of six adventurers, led by a bard (Chris Pine), raid a dungeon in search of a precious relic. The directors, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, previously made the thriller-comedy Game Night (2018), which we have not yet watched. This did receive good reviews, so we’ll give it a shot.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind: https://letterboxd.com/film/dangerous-encounters-of-the-first-kind/
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: https://letterboxd.com/film/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083199/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/83761

CWs for Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind:

• Nudity.
• Strip-searching.
• Sexual assault: a man attempts to r*pe a teenage girl, but is stopped.
• Shower scene.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Police brutality.
• Explosions.
• References to prostitution.
• Profanity.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Death of cat.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Terrorism.
• Squashed heads.

CWs for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves:

• Child abandonment.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Death of animal.
• Sad animal.
• Death of dragon.
• Spiders.
• Snakes.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Dislocations.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Someone is crushed to death.
• Body horror.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Death by falling.
• Eye mutilation.
• Stabbing.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Jump scares.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Incarceration.
• Claustrophobia.
• Underwater scenes.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Shaky cam.
• Crying baby.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Fat jokes.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Post-credits scene.

Links to movies:

• Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind: https://tankie.tube/w/fQyeN74cen9mKjJRy56tTR
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: https://tankie.tube/w/raLiMnNq6TBBEHMSrhMsCM

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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has made a deal to develop a film about the unlikely father of the Israel Air Force, and Aaron Sorkin will write the script and possibly direct the film.

The deal includes America’s Greatest Gift To Israel, an article published in Business Insider, written by David Kushner. The film will be produced by Gotham Group’s Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, who are in production on Deliver Me From Nowhere, with Scott Cooper directing Jeremy Allen White in a drama about the existential crisis Bruce Springsteen worked through by writing and recording his masterpiece album Nebraska.

The preeminent wordsmith Sorkin, whose recent credits include Being The Ricardos, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird, will script the story of Al Schwimmer, a post-WWII arms smuggler who helped create Israel’s air force, which helped the fledgling country survive.

Schwimmer was a decorated World War II veteran from Connecticut. In 1948 and on the heels of the Holocaust, a homeland for the Jewish State was being carved out of Arab territory, and countries like Egypt and Jordan readied to drive out these new neighbors. America, not eager to inflame the Cold War in Middle East countries, publicly announced it would not provide military aid to Israel. Schwimmer masterminded a covert, illegal, international operation that the article describes as one part Argo and one part Mission: Impossible.” Schwimmer aligned with the Haganah, the Jewish underground paramilitary, and put together a rag tag group of WWII vets who defied an American embargo to smuggle 125 military planes and more than 50,000 weapons to Palestine. The volunteer accomplices included Bugsy Siegel’s publicist, mobster Meyer Lansky, Pee-wee Herman’s dad Milton Rubenfeld, and Frank Sinatra.

Many of the rifles and other arms came from Czechoslovakia, and were used by the Nazis. Accounts say that this action helped save Israel by giving the country a fighting chance in the war by establishing air superiority. Later, Schwimmer and accomplices turned themselves in; most of them were Jewish, and argued that seeing the abject cruelty and genocide perpetrated against the Jews in the Holocaust steeled their resolve to make a righteous moral choice. While they were spared prison terms, Schwimmer and others were fined and stripped of their civil rights. Schwimmer refused to seek a pardon at the time, but was pardoned anyway by President Bill Clinton in 2001. He died a decade later.

The heroic exploits of Schwimmer and his cohorts have been captured in several documentaries. There is the 2015 PBS docu A Wing and a Prayer by filmmaker Boaz Dvir, who interviewed Schwimmer and many of the surviving troops. The prevailing opinion was their efforts prevented a second Holocaust. There is also the Roberta Grossman-directed Above and Beyond docu, and Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story, about the Bugsy Siegel publicist who fought for Israel.

Sorkin, who is separately working on a continuation of ground he covered in his script for The Social Network, is repped by WME.

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The visual cuisine for tonight is the original Grudge movie from 2002, Ju-on The Grudge. After that will be two more Sopranos episodes.

8 pm est

content warnings

Sopranos:

A gay man is outed this season.

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/13786?index1=-1&index2=-1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141842/parentalguid

There are also multiple hospital scenes this season.

https://tankie.tube/w/rbXCCTLPTyVA9D7ZXkmR9E; https://tankie.tube/w/nxhphUgdsrbRSrvCRQA4ct

• Panic attacks
• Profanity
• Sexism
• Homophobic slurs and homophobia
• Racist slurs and racism
• Nudity and sex
• Violence
• Depression
• Suicide
• Gun violence
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents
• Drugs, alcohol, and addiction
• Hospital scenes and medical procedures
• Depictions of distress
• Transphobia
• Ableism
• Weight shaming

Ju-on The Grudge

https://tankie.tube/w/bVfcsFZXFCHP2WcFs7wLAs

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10198

• Jumpscares
• Terror & tension
• Abusive parents
• Stalking
• Domestic violence
• Child abuse
• Violence towards animals and a pet dies
• Someone struggles to breathe
• Blood & gore
• Ghosts
• Jumpscares
• Shower scene
• Possession
• Disturbing audio and visuals
• Claustrophobic scenes
• Hospital and childbirth scene
• Sad ending
• The movie is not presented linearly

8 pm est

I'm becoming a bit of a cinephile, and I'd really like to experience the greatness of Soviet cinema but I don't know where to begin. Hit me with those recs!

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The visual cuisine for tonight is the remainder of the Harley Quinn anime's third season. After that will be the third american Grudge adaptation. Finally we will watch Godzilla vs King Ghidorah 1991.

8 pm est

content warnings:

Harley Quinn

https://tankie.tube/w/kfuyMFrcaREiuuuYpJJy4V; https://tankie.tube/w/swVhKF1Ei4JhC22p2F9b2t

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
• Brief depictions of sex and mentions of it

The Grudge 3

The curse is the result of domestic violence and makes some characters abusive towards their family - including children - when it possesses them.

https://tankie.tube/w/oNCTCbdzQtwENZ4XdwM73h

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433386/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17838

• A character has their throat slit
• A character struggles to breathe because of a plastic bag
• Interview of a character in distress
• Jump scares
• Tension and terror
• Death
• Child abuse
• A child dies
• Abusive parents
• Violence and gore
• Cruelty towards animals: a pet dies
• Domestic violence
• Stalking
• Drowning
• Hanging
• The ghost's signature noise is unsettling and potentially gross
• Family members die
• Ghost
• Possession
• Audio gore
• Hospital scenes
• Suicide
• Sad ending
• The movie is not presented linearly
• Needles & syringes
• Claustrophobic scene
• Bone breaking

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah

https://tankie.tube/w/gR5x9bjGvtSBfbZSJDdbc4

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/80391

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101962/parentalguide/

• Mild nudity
• Large scale destruction
• Giant monsters
• One of the monster chokes and has foam come out of its mouth
• Brief war scene
• A monster steps on american soldiers
• Blood
• Explosions
• Violence
• Mild profanity
• Smoking
• Death
• Some people catch on fire
• One of the monsters gets decapitated
• Weird relationship that may be incest
• Car, plane, and helicopter crash
• Drowning
• Mentions of nuclear explosions

8 pm est

The program was hidden with an encryption key under the name of B1gD@ddyL3n1n.