IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this special Thursday edition of Movie Night, I’m fulfilling two long-standing horror requests. First up is Don’t Look Now (1973), which centers on a married couple (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) grieving the death of their daughter. They meet a pair of mediums who bring them a spooky message from the afterlife. Then her ghost starts appearing. They try to communicate with her, and things just get spookier. Director is Nicolas Roeg, whose David-Bowie-as-an-alien saga The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) we watched a couple of weeks ago. This is considered one of his better films.

Second is Altered States (1980), concerning a scientist (played by William Hurt) who comes up with some convoluted drug concoctions to induce heightened states of consciousness. His reality begins to unravel as he increasingly submerses himself in his hallucinatory binges. Weird stuff ensues. What’s real? What’s just a dream? I guess we’ll find out. Or will we? Director is Ken Russell, who is otherwise best known for witch-hunt movie The Devils (1971), which we previously watched.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Don’t Look Now: https://letterboxd.com/film/dont-look-now/
• Altered States: https://letterboxd.com/film/altered-states/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Don’t Look Now: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9406
• Altered States: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12245

CWs for Don’t Look Now:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Blood and gore.
• Ghosts.
• Gaslighting.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Stabbing.
• Seizure.
• Death of child.
• Death of parent.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Shower scene.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Hospital scene.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Shaky cam.
• Fat jokes.
• Drowning.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Altered States:

• Sexual assault: one of the early hallucinations, lasting a few seconds, seems to imply this, though it’s presented in a vague, dreamlike fashion.
• Drug use.
• Animal abuse.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Snakes.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Seizure.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Shower scene.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Needles.
• Claustrophobia.
• Body horror.
• Flashing lights.
• Sex.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• Don’t Look Now: https://tankie.tube/w/5wjYVt6j6HhSUEHaDtJSH1
• Altered States: https://tankie.tube/w/dfqYJw1hfD7iQi8wYiFiwi

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, we’re dusting off Donkey Skin (1970), a famously weird French fairy tale about a princess who enlists the help of a fairy godmother to avoid marrying her own father. Features helicopters, naked blue ladies, a donkey that literally shits diamonds, people vomiting frogs, and musical numbers about not committing incest, among other things. Director is Jacques Demy, who is otherwise best-known for The Young Girls of Rochefort (1964) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1967), both of which we previously watched; this film was his biggest commercial success, and is considered a classic in France. Let’s check it out.

After that is The Producers (1967), Mel Brooks’ famous absurdist comedy about a theatre manager who hatches a scheme to rip off his investors by deliberately making a flop, and then making off with their money. His plan: a musical celebrating Hitler! What could possibly go wrong, I mean, uhh, right? Who would ever want to see that? Wackiness ensues. Stars Brooks himself, alongside Gene Wilder as his accountant. We’ve already watched Brooks’ Spaceballs (1987), and this is another one of his better-known works. He’s still alive, by the way, at the age of 98.

Last is Pokemon 3: The Movie (2000), for those who are still awake by then. Yep, we’re continuing the saga. Set during the Johto arc, this one centers on the legendary dog-mon Entei, who is the reincarnation of some little girl’s dad or something. We’ll find out. We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Donkey Skin: https://letterboxd.com/film/donkey-skin/
• The Producers: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-producers/
• Pokemon 3: The Movie: https://letterboxd.com/film/pokemon-3-the-movie/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Donkey Skin: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066207/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• The Producers: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15934
• Pokemon 3: The Movie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/39238

CWs for Donkey Skin:

• Incest.
• Slaughtered donkey. Protagonist wears said donkey’s skin.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Nudity.
• Vomiting.

CWs for The Producers:

• Drunkenness.
• Nazis.
• Mention of r*pe.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Broken bones.
• Slapstick violence.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Ethnic stereotypes.
• Cheating.
• Spitting.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Suicide attempt.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Autism played for laughs.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Fat jokes.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Antisemitism.
• “Man in a dress” jokes.
• Hate speech.
• Ableism.
• Age gap.
• “Sexual content”.It’s the 60s, though, so nothing explicit.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.

CWs for Pokemon 3: The Movie:

• Death of child.
• Child endangerment.
• Death of parent.
• Ghosts.
• Animal cruelty.
• Cartoon violence.
• Explosions.
• Existentialism.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Unstable reality.

Links to movies:

• Donkey Skin: https://tankie.tube/w/ujtTFS6v8JJP824G9VSuPV
• The Producers: https://tankie.tube/w/5qKHPNYY5Gpg1TZgcL2WV8
• Pokemon 3: The Movie: https://tankie.tube/w/cTEz4mqE6oHAtjPNdeTzgk

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with Leviathan (2014), one of the best-reviewed post-Soviet Russian movies. A corrupt mayor in a small town orders a man’s home to be demolished. The man, who would prefer not to move, since he has a job and family etc., decides to hire a lawyer and fight his case, because surely, the legal system will bring him justice. Things go downhill from there. Where’s Mao when you need him? This is one of the best-regarded films to date of auteur director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who is probably best-known otherwise for The Return (2003) (which we haven’t watched yet.) A lot of reviews compare this to Lars von Trier’s work. It’ll be a ride.

After that is Blindspotting (2018), a black comedy/buddy film about a black man in Oakland trying to get through his last three days of probation, which would be easy, except that he becomes caught up with his troublemaking white best friend. Then, they witness a police shooting, and everything goes to hell. Can dudes continue to rock, or are we gonna be saying "God Damn America" once again? Let’s find out. This is the best-regarded work to date of director Carlos Lopez Estrada, whose credits also include, uhh, Raya and the Last Dragon (2021); it is also one of Letterboxd’s highest-rated films of the 2010s.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Leviathan: https://letterboxd.com/film/leviathan-2014/
• Blindspotting: https://letterboxd.com/film/blindspotting/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Leviathan: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/89107
• Blindspotting: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/18671

CWs for Leviathan:

• Sexual assault: a man kisses a woman, who does not seem to consent.
• Sex.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Domestic violence.
• Capitalism.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Blindspotting:

• Domestic violence.
• Child abuse.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Nightmare sequence.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Tooth damage.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Spitting.
• PTSD.
• Racist cop shoots black man.
• Flashing lights.
• Black character dies first.
• Hate speech.
• Ableism.
• N-word.
• “Sexual content”. Seems pretty tame to me, though.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Leviathan: https://tankie.tube/w/6JV8WYGnmSnyHeon82uA3Z
• Blindspotting: https://tankie.tube/w/b4mVWVYE1Rdw9MdM6XMUqw

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 121 through 126 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see us almost (but not quite) conclude the S arc, with Hotaru / Sailor Saturn’s storyline reaching its climax. The Outers want her dead! Can the Inners dissuade them? I guess we’ll find out.

After that is Monica’s Gang in an Adventure in Time (2007), a sci-fi cartoon based on the Brazilian comic strip Monica’s Gang (AKA Monica and Friends), which is a pop-culture institution there, being the equivalent of Charlie Brown in the US or Asterix in France. Four bratty kids get up to all sorts of comic adventures, this one involving a time-machine experiment gone wrong. which has caused the essences of the four elements to scatter across the past and future. The kids have to go find them, or time on Earth will freeze. Dinosaurs, cavemen, pirates, robots, their baby selves, and a cosmic dominatrix stand in their way. Can they save the universe? I guess we’ll find out. This has an extremely high rating on Letterboxd, and Brazilian users seem to consider it iconic for their generation. Let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time: https://letterboxd.com/film/monicas-gang-in-an-adventure-in-time/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Monica’s Gang in an Adventure in Time:

• Child endangerment.
• Ethnic stereotypes.
• Slapstick violence.
• Explosions.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 121: https://tankie.tube/w/m7yCKQRgkB3x8zJdNgygdV
• Sailor Moon episode 122: https://tankie.tube/w/7qvNckimn997K7H89JYX2M
• Sailor Moon episode 123: https://tankie.tube/w/74x8JQZUzuCCfvbDwq93di
• Sailor Moon episode 124: https://tankie.tube/w/coedh7oriBSsfGRoakZ9zs
• Sailor Moon episode 125: https://tankie.tube/w/bDjhQUVrbmiGbp9uqXg6zm
• Sailor Moon episode 126: https://tankie.tube/w/r86Yov53fcFZe7ioDeRpWt
• Monica’s Gang in an Adventure in Time: https://tankie.tube/w/ghKHcfA7mctDaSmFiCYHcE

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Twilight Samurai (2002), a jidaigeki set at the end of the Edo Period, with the feudal system beginning to unravel. A single-father samurai has to navigate the changing political situation while also taking care of his children and elderly mother, and dealing with the return of an old flame, as his financial situation becomes ever more precarious. It is considered one of the best jidaigeki films of the 21st century, and the magnum opus of director Yoji Yamada. Looks neat; let’s watch.

After that is C’mon C’mon (2021), a slice-of-life about a documentary filmmaker (played by Joaquin Phoenix) who is forced to go on a road-trip with his nephew after the boy’s father succumbs to a manic episode. The uncle doesn’t like kids, and the kid finds him a grouchy bore, but will they become friends? We’ll have to watch to find out. It features some real interviews with children along the way, which are incorporated into the narrative in a docudrama style. Reviews refer to it as a “mumblecore Uncle Buck”. Well, it has a really high rating on Letterboxd, and is one of director Mike Mills’ best-reviewed films thus far (his other well-known one being 20th Century Women [2016]); good enough for me.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Twilight Samurai: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-twilight-samurai/
• C’mon C’mon: https://letterboxd.com/film/cmon-cmon/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Twilight Samurai: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351817/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• C’mon C’mon: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/28642

CWs for The Twilight Samurai:

• Nudity.
• Blood and gore.
• Domestic violence.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Cutting of flesh.

CWs for C’mon C’mon:

• Unconsciousness.
• Death of parent.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Abortion.

Links to movies:

• The Twilight Samurai: https://tankie.tube/w/jphZjjDj21zscXgEuA67LR
• C’mon C’mon: https://tankie.tube/w/amRLsDG1fM7wEHeXXf5qdG

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this special Thursday edition of Slop Night, we’re watching a trio of classic monster movies. I was trying to decide on two of them, but they’re all short, so you know what, we’re watching all three. First up is The Wolf Man (1941), the movie that more-or-less defined what a werewolf is in pop culture. A man (played by Lon Chaney Jr.) returns to his father’s spooky castle estate in Wales, only to be bitten by a wolf; he then starts transforming into a wolf himself, becoming an insatiable monster during a full moon. Will he be cured, or will someone else put him down first? I guess we’ll find out. Pretty much everything you associate with werewolf lore is actually from this movie. It is by the best-known and best-regarded film of schlockmeister director George Waggner.

Second is The Thing from Another World (1951), the first film adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr.’s 1930 short story “Who Goes There?”, which John Carpenter later made into The Thing (1982). A group of scientists and military personnel in an Arctic research base find themselves being picked off one-by-one by a shapeshifting, body-snatching alien. Somehow, they have to figure out a way to kill it. Pretty much Among Us, but on Earth. It is the only directing credit of note of Christian Nyby, who was otherwise a career film editor.

Third, and last, is Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), in which a team of scientists discover and capture a prehistoric half-man half-fish creature while searching for fossils, only for it to escape and kidnap the fiancee of one of the researchers. Pretty much the definitive monster-captures-girl movie of the 1950s, and one that inspired about a million homages and pastiches. Director is Jack Arnold, whose film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) we watched last night (and it was great.) This is his most famous feature, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Wolf Man: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wolf-man-1941/
• The Thing from Another World: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-thing-from-another-world/
• Creature from the Black Lagoon: https://letterboxd.com/film/creature-from-the-black-lagoon/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Wolf Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12312
• The Thing from Another World: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12245
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17418

CWs for The Wolf Man:

• Death of dog.
• Stalking.
• Animal abuse.
• Body horror.
• Needles.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Gun violence.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Thing from Another World:

• Deaths of dogs.
• Stalking.
• Dog fighting.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Shaving.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Amputation.
• Broken bones.
• Jump scares.
• Electrocution.
• Kissing.
• Flying saucer crash.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Creature from the Black Lagoon:

• Bugs.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Squashed head.
• Kidnapping.
• Hospital scene.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Blood and gore.
• Drowning.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• The Wolf Man: https://tankie.tube/w/7mMzYCXKNL4pHEMz8ao8bj
• The Thing from Another World: https://tankie.tube/w/ieZJYUFB83oQacsNiQ55Bt
• Creature from the Black Lagoon: https://tankie.tube/w/tKuxv4kUhAPaGxWmn1GTkQ

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, we’re dusting off two of the 1950s classics of slop. First up is The Court Jester (1955), a medieval absurdist-comedy swashbuckler in glorious Technicolor, concerning a circus performer (played by Danny Kaye) who masquerades as a jester to take down an evil usurper (Cedric Hardwicke) with the power of puns and slapstick, winning the affections of a pair of princesses (Glynis Johns and Angela Lansbury) along the way. Much silliness ensues. Dudes rock. This is a big cult classic, and one of the better-regarded Hollywood comedies of the 50s. It is the magnum opus of both of its directors, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Looks cool; let’s watch.

After that is The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), the best-regarded film of director Jack Arnold, who is otherwise best-known for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1957) and It Came From Outer Space (1953). A scientist accidentally exposes himself to a chemical that causes him to gradually shrink, and attempts to stop the process do nothing. Soon, he’s ant-sized, and his home has become a death trap, with even his own cat becoming a lethal hazard. Will he escape from his predicament? I guess we’ll find out. This is considered one of the best sci-fi films of the 50s, and also features some of the best special effects of the era. We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Court Jester: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-court-jester/
• The Incredible Shrinking Man: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-incredible-shrinking-man/genres/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Court Jester: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/56312
• The Incredible Shrinking Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11893

CWs for The Court Jester:

• Dead animals.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Abduction of infant.
• Kidnapping.
• Deaths of parents.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Crying baby.
• Objectification of female characters.

CWs for The Incredible Shrinking Man:

• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Needles.
• Body horror.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• The Court Jester: https://tankie.tube/w/1FiCfvmbA7vcUhikYfuUuV
• The Incredible Shrinking Man: https://tankie.tube/w/eBZYDZW1gCJJtUWtjssFTv

This page lists Wikipedia pages by the total amount of text in all of their talk page archives put together. It is the best measure there is for determining how much squabbling has gone on behind the scenes for a given page.

Here is a ranking of all 63 of the listed pages that are actual articles (as opposed to policy/administrative/user pages), in descending order:

1. Donald Trump
2. Intelligent design
3. Climate change
4. Barack Obama
5. United States
6. Jesus
7. Race and intelligence
8. Catholic Church
9. Circumcision
10. Homeopathy
11. Muhammad
12. Gamergate (harassment campaign)
13. Chiropractic
14. Abortion
15. Monty Hall problem
16. Gaza War (2008-2009)
17. Evolution
18. Prem Rawat
19. Sarah Palin
20. India
21. Israel
22. World War II
23. Christ myth theory
24. Mass killings under communist regimes
25. Jehovah's Witnesses
26. September 11 attacks
27. Cold fusion
28. Climatic Research Unit email controversy
29. Armenian genocide
30. Anarchism
31. Atheism
32. Falun Gong
33. Neuro-linguistic programming
34. Jerusalem
35. Control of cities during the Syrian civil war
36. Kosovo
37. British Isles
38. Transcendental Meditation
39. United Kingdom
40. George W. Bush
41. Christianity
42. COVID-19 pandemic
43. Libertarianism
44. Acupuncture
45. Thomas Jefferson
46. International recognition of Kosovo
47. Israel and apartheid
48. Adolf Hitler
49. United States and state terrorism
50. Syrian civil war
51. List of best-selling music artists
52. Julian Assange
53. Russo-Georgian War
54. Historicity of Jesus
55. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
56. Tea Party movement
57. List of common misconceptions
58. Murder of Meredith Kercher
59. Genesis creation narrative
60. Taiwan
61. Hillary Clinton
62. Electronic cigarette
63. Michael Jackson

Bubbling under (present in earlier versions; I have gone back to 2015 so far here, though the page history goes back to 2010):

64. 0.999...
65. European Union
66. Chronic fatigue syndrome
67. Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
68. Shakespeare authorship question
69. Fascism
70. Astrology
71. The Holocaust
72. Joseph Smith
73. Chelsea Manning
74. List of scientists who disagree with the scientific consensus on global warming [NOTE: now deleted]
75. Gibraltar
76. Ayn Rand
77. Fox News
78. Shooting of Trayvon Martin
79. Human
80. Canada
81. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
82. Race (human categorization)
83. Iraq War
84. Elvis Presley
85. Islam
86. Philosophy
87. Terri Schiavo case
88. Black people
89. White people
90. Palestinians
91. Mitt Romney
92. HIV
93. Occupy Wall Street
94. Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
95. Elizabeth II
96. Asperger syndrome
97. Centrifugal force
98. Transnistria

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), one of the best-reviewed French films of the 1980s. It is a coming-of-age school drama set during the WW2 Nazi occupation of France. A boy forges a friendship with a new student at school, but things get dicey when said student turns out to be secretly Jewish. Drama ensues. It is an autobiographical story based on the experience of director Louis Malle during the occupation; we have already watched his feature-length dinner conversation My Dinner with Andre (1981), which was solid (his other well-known films include The Fire Within [1963] and Elevator to the Gallows [1958]), so let’s check out another one of his most well-regarded works.

After that is Challengers (2024), the latest from Call Me By Your Name (2017) and Suspiria (2018) director Luca Guadanigno. A young tennis coach (played by Zendaya) seeks to get her tennis-player husband out of his losing rut by enrolling him in a low-level tournament, where he just so happens to be matched against her ex-boyfriend. What’s more, they start woogin’ for each other, and they form a throuple, and the competition heats up in tandem with the romance. Critics are raving about this one; it is one of the top-rated films of the year so far. So, we’ll give it a whirl. We were going to watch this on Friday, but Hextube crapped out, so we’re doing it for real tonight.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Au Revoir Les Enfants: https://letterboxd.com/film/au-revoir-les-enfants/
• Challengers: https://letterboxd.com/film/challengers/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Au Revoir Les Enfants: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092593/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Challengers: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1071641

CWs for Au Revoir Les Enfants:

• Nazis.
• Partially-nude teenagers.
• Bath scene.
• Reference to masturbation.
• Cheating.
• A Nazi soldier orders a boy to pull his pants down. The act is not depicted, however.
• Schoolyard violence.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Drunkenness.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Challengers:

• Alcohol.
• Broken bones.
• Cheating.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Shower scene.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Hospital scene.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Homelessness.

Links to movies:

• Au Revoir Les Enfants: https://tankie.tube/w/e6LWtoBu8KJk8UeTx7xRtp
• Challengers: https://tankie.tube/w/u38qrShAhhAjyRgP9TSEhd

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 115 through 120 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the continuation of the S arc, with Hotaru and Sailor Saturn’s storyline starting to heat up. The Outers want her dead! Can the Inners dissuade them? I guess we’ll find out.

After that is The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), a CGI animated feature from Netflix about a dysfunctional who goes on a road trip, only to find themselves in the midst of a robot apocalypse. Hilarity ensues. Can they save the day? Can they learn to understand one another? Find out tonight. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of The Lego Movie (2014) produced this, and newcomer Mike Rianda directed. This is one of the highest-rated Netflix originals on Letterboxd so far. Looks neat; let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, hopefully, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

It’s down at the moment, so wish for it to be back up in time. Please fix Hextube!

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines: https://letterboxd.com/film/no-dogs-or-italians-allowed/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/776479

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for The Mitchells vs. the Machines:

• Joke about eating a dog.
• Abused person forgives their abuser.
• Abusive parent.
• Stalking.
• Death of animal.
• Spiders.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Tooth damage.
• Deaths of non-humans.
• Kidnapping.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Vomiting.
• Claustrophobia.
• Flashing lights.
• Fat jokes.
• Nudity.
• Car crash.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Plane crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 115: https://tankie.tube/w/mJiyiwiwuNqfiYKKKX3mtK
• Sailor Moon episode 116: https://tankie.tube/w/1FVrrPqWZF8nGVaWgPEbTj
• Sailor Moon episode 117: https://tankie.tube/w/dLN8Gb2akD3HGe3yBt6Zc4
• Sailor Moon episode 118: https://tankie.tube/w/5EWDhXmqS59Lp2VLB56232
• Sailor Moon episode 119: https://tankie.tube/w/bCe4x2HdaJBSfE2citaiAh
• Sailor Moon episode 120: https://tankie.tube/w/3YrnEz5ENreHuWoCwTEA1i
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines: https://tankie.tube/w/cwY86f2V26sHxRxaie96Ug