[-] wombat@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

I thought this meant they opened a 20+ year old fortune cookie, but apparently napster still exists.

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re giving some African cinema a try, with the highly-acclaimed Senegalese WW2 film Camp de Thiaroye (1988). It concerns the real-life story of a platoon of West African soldiers who fought for the French during the Battle of France in 1940. Upon their release from German POW camps in 1944, they return to Africa, and the French thank them by locking them up in another prison camp, this time in Dakar. The prisoners mutiny against poor conditions, resulting in the Thiaroye massacre, one of France’s worst colonial atrocities. God Damn the French: The Movie. This is one of the highest-rated African films on Letterboxd, and a classic of Third World cinema in general. The director, Ousmane Sembene, is otherwise best-known for Black Girl (1966), which we should also watch sometime.

After that is The Boxer’s Omen (1983), one of the most renowned cult classics of Hong Kong cinema, an off-the-walls fantasy-action-horror film about a boxer’s quest into a sinister underworld filled with monsters and magic to free his family from an evil curse. Can he punch his way to a happy ending? I guess we’ll find out. This is generally seen as one of the best classic Hong Kong effects films, being particularly noted for its ridiculous amount of gore. It is also the best-known and best-regarded work of director Kuei Chih-Hung, who specialized in this sort of thing.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Camp de Thiaroye:

  • Deaths of animals.
  • Animal abuse.
  • Smoking.
  • Colonialism.
  • Blood and gore.
  • References to sex. Not depicted.
  • Alcohol.
  • War crimes.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for The Boxer’s Omen:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex scene about 7 minutes in.
  • Sexual assault: the aforementioned sex scene, between the protagonist and his love interest, is rather rough. It isn’t explicitly non-consensual, but I’ll put a CW here just to be safe.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Vomiting.
  • Bodily fluids all over the place.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Decapitation.
  • Spiders.
  • Animal abuse.
  • Snakes.
  • Bugs.

Links to movies:

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 61 through 66 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 beginning of Usagi and Mamoru’s breakup arc, as well as the revelation of Chibiusa’s origins.

After that is Robot Dreams (2023), a dialogue-free French/Spanish sci-fi story about a dog living in 1980s New York who decides to solve his loneliness by creating a robot buddy. They become the best of friends, but then, oh no, what happens when they have to separate? This one received rave reviews, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this year. Director Pablo Berger has not done anything else of note so far. It looks neat, so let’s watch.

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

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 Robot Dreams:

  • Deaths of animals.
  • Sad animal.
  • Bugs.
  • Decapitation.
  • Broken bones.
  • Toe mutilation.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Sad ending.

Links to movies:

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For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with The Beasts (2022), a Spanish thriller about a French environmentalist couple in the Galician countryside who like to live in an eco-friendly manner. This lifestyle conflicts with that of their neighbors, who want to clear out the area to make room for wind turbines. A sadistic pair of brothers begins to terrorize the couple, and things spiral out of control from there. This is the best-known and best-regarded film to date of director Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Excellent reviews across the board for this one; let’s watch.

After that is School on Fire (1988), a Hong Kong crime film about a schoolgirl who testifies against the triads in court and finds herself the target of reprisals. The usual over-the-top Hong Kong acton ensues, with guns and blood sprays all over the place. While not Ringo Lam’s most famous film (that would probably be City on Fire [1987]), this is his highest-rated, both by critics and audience. Looks cool; let’s check it out.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for The Beasts:

  • Nudity.
  • Shower scene.
  • Dead animals.
  • Animal abuse.
  • Eating of cat meat.
  • Profanity.
  • Alcohol abuse.
  • Drunkenness.
  • Someone is strangled to death.
  • Beatings.
  • Stalking.
  • Gaslighting.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Someone is crushed to death.
  • Psychological torture.
  • Spitting.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Someone is watched without their knowledge.
  • Gun violence.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for School on Fire:

  • Objectification of women.
  • Broken bones.
  • A girl is forced to strip to her undergarments by a triad boss. No nudity or physical contact in this scene.
  • Sexual assault: during the climax, a man rips off a woman’s outer garments with intent to r*pe her, but he is stabbed to death beforehand.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Gun violence.
  • Dismemberment.
  • Suicide.

Links to movies:

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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with the Japanese thriller The Face of Another (1966), one of the most highly-regarded films of renowned auteur Hiroshi Teshigahara. A man’s face is blown off in an accident, and he has his doctor give him a new face. Uh-oh! He got the Joker face, and starts becoming the mask. His turn toward villainy begins. This is considered one of the all-time classics of Japanese cinema, currently ranking at #248 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. Looks neat; let’s watch.

After that is Billy Elliot (2000), a British dramedy about a boy who discovers his love for ballet. The only problem is that he’s from a working-class family during the miners’ strike of 1984, and his father holds some less-than-enlightened views on male dancers. This film received three Oscar nomnations, including for Best Director and Original Screenplay. Director is Stephen Daldry, a perennial maker of Oscar slush like The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008). However, pretty much everyone agrees this is his best work, and I’m a sucker for labor-themed movies, so we’ll check it out.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for The Face of Another:

  • Gaslighting.
  • Implied sexual assault of woman by Jokerfied protagonist. Not really depicted, though.
  • Cheating.
  • Mental institution scene.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Misophonia.
  • Body dysmorphica.
  • Suicide.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Ableist language.
  • “Sexual content”. Seems pretty non-explicit to me, unless I missed something.
  • Incest.
  • Sad ending.
  • Blood.
  • Drowning.

CWs for Billy Elliot:

  • Stalking.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Capitalism.
  • Chld abuse.
  • Alcoholism.
  • Shaving.
  • Dementia.
  • Blood.
  • Death of parent.
  • Cheating.
  • Destruction of child’s toy.
  • Ghosts.
  • Spitting.
  • Anxiety attack.
  • Homophobic slurs.

Links to movies:

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, we’re starting early, at 6:30PM, to honor the late Akira Toriyama by watching two selections from his magnum opus. First is Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986), the first Dragon Ball movie; it is a condensed, alternate retelling of the first arc from the show. An evil king seeks the Dragon Balls to wish away his insatiable hunger for food, and Goku and the gang have to stop him. After that we will watch Dragon Ball Z, ep. 125, in which Goku and Piccolo go to driving school. It is one of the show’s most beloved episodes, and probably the most famous of all the anime-only eps.

After that, since the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 55 through 60 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 conclusion of the anime-only Makai Tree arc of Season 2, and the debut of everyone’s favorite pink hellspawn, Chibiusa.

Last for the night is The First Slam Dunk (2022), the highly-acclaimed smash hit based on the phenomenally popular 1990 manga of the same name, about a scrappy high-school basketball time who earn a chance to win the national championship. Will they overcome their differences and show those big-city jerks what's what? I guess we'll find out. This was the best-reviewed anime film of 2022, and it finally released on Blu-Ray this week, so we're watching it.

We’ll start 6:30PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies:

  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Sexual harassment of underage girl.
  • Underage nudity played for laughs.
  • Gun violence.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Violence against children.

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 First Slam Dunk:

  • Profanity.
  • Fistfighting.
  • Blood.

Links to movies:

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For this Friday Movie Night, starting at 8PM EST (we're trying an earlier start time this weekend), we’re watching Gangs of Wasseypur: Part 2 (2012), one of the highest-rated Bollywood movies on Letterboxd. Part 1 told the story of a young man (Sardar Khan) in 1970s India who pursues revenge against the mafia boss (Ramadhir Singh) who killed his father. Sardar got old, and his sons grew up, and one of the sons ingratiated himself with Ramadhir. We left off Part 1 in the 1990s, with Sardar being assassinated in an ambush condoned by his various enemies, which include his estranged wife. As with many Bollyword blockbusters, this movie is a whole bunch of things mashed into one, including gritty gangster violence, over-the-top melodrama, action scenes, broad comedy, and musical numbers. Our last foray into Indian cinema, Nayakan (1987), was a hit on Hextube, as was Part 1 when we watched it two weeks ago; this one is on every list of “movies to watch if you’re new to Bollywood” in existence, so we’re giving it a try.

After that is The Set-Up (1949), a classic film-noir about a down-on-his-luck boxer who nobody believes will win his upcoming title fight. He is determined to prove the naysayers wrong, but unfortunately, his manager has accepted a bribe to throw the fight. Scandal! What could go wrong? This is considered a classic of film-noir, combining the genre’s usual cynicism and moral ambiguity into a taut 73 minutes. The director is Robert Wise, otherwise best-known for, uhh, The Sound of Music (1965). His work had some range, apparently. Looks cool, and It’s received rave reviews, so let’s watch.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex scene, but no nudity.
  • Prostitution.
  • Kissing.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Gun violence.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Stabbing.
  • Beating with blunt instruments.
  • Genital trauma (offscreen.)
  • Someone is tied up.
  • Profanity.
  • Smoking.
  • Alcohol.
  • Drug use.
  • Broken bones.
  • Dismemberment.
  • Dead animals.

CWs for The Set-Up:

  • Blood.
  • Broken bones.

CWs for Out of the Blue:

  • Implied incest (not depicted.)
  • Nudity.
  • Car crash.
  • Stabbing.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Profanity.
  • Drug use.
  • Homophobic slur.
  • Sad ending.

Links to movies:

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For this extra-long edition of Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with one of the all-time classic French films, A Man Escaped (1956)! It strips the prison film down to its most basic elements, centering on a French Resistance fighter’s attempt to escape a tiny cell under the eyes of his Nazi captors. The director is Robert Bresson, whose donkey tale Au Hasard Balthasar (1966) we previously watched. This is commonly considered his magnum opus, and is a staple of lists of greatest films; it currently ranks #86 on Letterboxd’s Top 250.

After that is Boy and the World (2013), a dialogue-free Brazilian surrealist peace about a boy who leaves his village to find his absent father, and his subsequent journey through the urban, industrial, consumerist hellscape of the modern world. It received rave reviews across the board, and garnered a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 2015 Oscars. It is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Ale Abreu. We were going to watch this last night, but it started after midnight, so everyone went to bed instead. I moved the showing to this evening instead.

Third up is the highly-anticipated highly-acclaimed new blockbuster, Dune Part Two (2024), the second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel. We will be watching a camrip. It is decent quality, though a watermark wanders around the screen for the whole movie. That’s just the price we pay for good early rips, I guess.

We’ll start at 7PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for A Man Escaped:

  • Suicidal ideation.
  • Prison.
  • Nazis.
  • Torture.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Blood.

CWs for Boy and the World:

  • Strip club.
  • Police brutality.
  • Capitalism.
  • Chld endangerment.

CWs for Dune Part Two:

  • Abusive parents.
  • Gaslighting.
  • Drug use.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Snakes.
  • Bugs.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Throat mutilation.
  • Someone is crushed to death.
  • Someone is burned alive.
  • Someone is buried alive.
  • Head squashing.
  • Unconsciousness.
  • Someone has a seizure.
  • Torture.
  • Someone falls to their death.
  • Stabbing.
  • Death of parent.
  • Jump scares.
  • Trypophobia.
  • Vomiting.
  • Someone is eaten alive.
  • Spitting.
  • Destruction of priceless artifact.
  • Needles.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Sudden loud noises.
  • Screaming.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Fetuses.
  • Orientalism.
  • White savior narrative.
  • Ableist languae.
  • Discussion of religion.
  • Implied sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Male character ridiculed for crying.
  • Fat suit.
  • Sad ending.
  • Nuclear explosion.
  • Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 49 through 54 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 anime-only Makai Tree arc of Season 2, and the beginning of Tuxedo Mask’s Arab sheik phase.

After that is Boy and the World (2013), a dialogue-free Brazilian surrealist peace about a boy who leaves his village to find his absent father, and his subsequent journey through the urban, industrial, consumerist hellscape of the modern world. It received rave reviews across the board, and garnered a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 2015 Oscars. It is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Ale Abreu.

We’ll start 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

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 Boy and the World:

  • Strip club.
  • Police brutality.
  • Capitalism.
  • Chld endangerment.

Links to movies:

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For this Friday Movie Night, since the Oscars are coming up soon, we’re doing a double feature of Best Picture nominees. First up is The Zone of Interest (2023), a family drama about SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss’s efforts to build his dream house for his family in a fabulous new property he acquired right next door to Auschwitz. The camp’s horrors are not directly shown, but they nevertheless keep impinging on his attempts to live an idyllic, peaceful life with his family. Banality of Evil: The Movie. We already watched director Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) on Hextube, and it was a hit, so let’s give another one of his films a shot.

After that is Poor Things (2023), a magical-realist/sci-fi/black comedy/romance/feminist drama/weird thing from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster [2015], The Favourite [2018]). Emma Stone stars as a corpse brought back to life with the mind with a child by a Frankenstein-esque scientist (Willem Dafoe), and she steadily takes back control of her life and sexuality from the shitty men who manipulate her. Pretty much everyone lists this as one of the best films of the year, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for The Zone of Interest:

  • Nazis.
  • Holocaust. Although the horrors of the camp are not directly depicted, disturbing sounds are often audibe.
  • Someone is burned alive.
  • Torture (albeit offscreen.)
  • Cheating.
  • Natural bodies of water.
  • Vomiting.
  • Screaming.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Hate speech.
  • “Sexual content”. Seems pretty tame from what I can see, though.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for Poor Things:

  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Sexual assault. A woman who does not understand sex is touched by a man in a lascivious manner. However, she does not express any fear or refusal, and initiates sex later. Sexual liberation is one of the film’s main themes.
  • Pedophilia, following on from the above, since the main character has just been born, albeit in an adult body.
  • Sexualization of minor, in the sense that the main character has been reborn in an adult body.
  • Necrophilia, since the main character is a revived corpse.
  • Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
  • Abusive parents.
  • Abused person forgives their abuser.
  • Stalking.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Abused becomes the abuser.
  • Gaslighting.
  • Child abuse.
  • Drug use.
  • Alcohol abuse.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Animal abuse.
  • Body horror.
  • Someone is drugged.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Chloroform rag.
  • Prostitution.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Disfigurement.
  • Throat mutilation.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Decapitation.
  • Choking.
  • Someone is lit on fire.
  • Amputation.
  • Unconsciousness.
  • Someone falls to their death.
  • Eye mutilation.
  • Stabbing.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Death of child.
  • R-slur.
  • Disabled character played by able-bodied actor.
  • Kidnapping.
  • Death of parent.
  • Cheating.
  • Natural bodies of water.
  • Razors.
  • Someone wets themselves.
  • Vomiting.
  • Spitting.
  • Audio gore.
  • Farting.
  • Mental hospital scene.
  • Cancer.
  • Mental illness.
  • Self-harm.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Dissociation.
  • Suicide attempt.
  • Unstable reality.
  • Meltdown.
  • Misophonia.
  • Jump scares.
  • Crying baby.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Screaming.
  • Obscene language.
  • Someone is watched without their knowledge.
  • Death of pregnant woman.
  • Age-gap romance.
  • Religion.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • BDSM.
  • Someone loses their virginity.
  • Chronic illness.
  • Homelessness.
  • Debate over existentialism.
  • Drowning.
  • Gun violence.

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with one of the classics of the New Hollywood era: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969). Set during the Great Depression, it centers on a sadistic competition for poor people to dance endlessly for a cash prize. Will they survive to the end? I guess we’ll find out. It’s pretty much God Damn America: The Movie, and arguably the magnum opus of director Sydney Pollack (otherwise best-known for Tootsie [1982]). Rave reviews everywhere for this one; it is often considered one of the best films of the 1960s.

After that is one of the highest-rated Brazilian films on Letterboxd, A Dog’s Will (2000), which was ranked #3 on the site’s Top 250 films of all time until a change in methodology last year. It is a fantasy-comedy in the vein of Terry Gilliam about a pair of petty swindlers who roam the Brazilian countryside, meeting strange people and finding themselves in many wacky and odd situations, all the while dealing with their dimming prospects of going to heaven. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded film of director Guel Arraes. Apparently, Brazilians love this movie and consider it a cultural icon. We have not touched much of anything from Brazil so far (Black God, White Devil [1964] is the only one we’ve watched, unless I’m forgetting something), so let’s give this one a whirl.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?:

  • Gaslighting.
  • Death of horse.
  • Discussion of sexual assault. Not depicted.
  • Gun violence.
  • Someone falls to their death.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for A Dog’s Will:

  • Death of dog.
  • Cheating.
  • Spitting.
  • Self-harm.
  • Homophobic slurs.
  • “Sexual content”. Looks pretty tame to me, though.

Links to movies:

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, we’re starting early, at 7:30PM EST, to watch Charlie Chapin’s The Circus (1928). We were supposed to watch it after Gangs of Wasseypur last night, but due to our late start, itself due to the terrible changes to Vimeo’s free account system, everyone decided to go to bed instead. Therefore, we will watch it this evening. We have, surprisingly, never watched any Charlie Chaplin films, despite having dipped into Buster Keaton’s filmography a few times. The Tramp joins the circus as a handyman, and falls in love with the owner’s daughter; hilarity ensues, including all sorts of animal antics. This is considered one of Chaplin’s best films, so let’s give it a whirl.

After that, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 43 through 48 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 conclusion of Season 1, and with it, the Dark Kingdom arc; it also sees the beginning of the anime-only Makai Tree arc of Season 2.

Last for the night is Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), a French cartoon about an African folk tale about a small boy who must journey into the mountains to free his village from the curse of an evil witch. Excellent reviews everywhere for this one, and there aren’t very many movies about African mythology, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 7:30PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for The Circus:

  • Slapstick violence.
  • Smoking.

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 Kirikou and the Sorceress:

  • A whole bunch of nude children, including the protagonist throughout the movie. However, they are all drawn with more-or-less Barbie doll anatomy.
  • A whole lot of bare-breasted women.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Age-gap romance between a child who transforms into an adult and an adult woman.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Snakes.
  • Implied sexual assault as part of villain’s backstory. Not depicted.
  • Kidnapping.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Childbirth.
  • Babies.
  • Black character dies first.
  • Drowning.

Links to movies:

Forthcoming. I have the files, but the most convenient way to upload them is to replace one of the earlier videos while a later video is playing.

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submitted 9 months ago by wombat@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with Gangs of Wasseypur: Part 1 (2012), one of the highest-rated Bollywood movies on Letterboxd. It is the first part (of two) of the story of a young man in 1970s India who pursues revenge against the man who killed his father. As with many Bollyword blockbusters, this movie is a whole bunch of things mashed into one, including gritty gangster violence, over-the-top melodrama, action scenes, broad comedy, and musical numbers. Our last foray into Indian cinema, Nayakan (1987), was a hit on Hextube, and this one is on every list of “movies to watch if you’re new to Bollywood” in existence, so we’re giving it a try. After that is The Circus (1928), as we have, surprisingly, never watched any Charlie Chaplin films, despite having dipped into Buster Keaton’s filmography a few times. The Tramp joins the circus as a handyman, and falls in love with the owner’s daughter; hilarity ensues, including all sorts of animal antics. This is considered one of Chaplin’s best films, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Gangs of Wasseypur: Part 1:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex scene, but no nudity.
  • Prostitution.
  • Kissing.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Gun violence.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Stabbing.
  • Beating with blunt instruments.
  • Genital trauma (offscreen.)
  • Someone is tied up.
  • Profanity.
  • Smoking.
  • Alcohol.
  • Drug use.
  • Broken bones.
  • Dismemberment.
  • Dead animals.

CWs for The Circus:

  • Slapstick violence.
  • Smoking.

Links to movies:

Forthcoming. I have the files, and will upload shortly.

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