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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 Climax (2018), which centers on the worst party ever, a French dance-rave that turns into a nightmare after everyone’s drinks are spiked with LSD. A whole lot of drug-addled revelry and excess follows while some of the partiers try to find the culprit. Oh, and did I mention there’s dancing? Director is French auteur Gaspar Noe, whose films we have not watched yet, but he is a good buddy of Harmony Korine, whose Gummo (1997) was a hit on Hextube.

After that is Fury (1936), a crime drama from renowned director Fritz Lang, the guy behind Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). In this, the most-acclaimed film of his Hollywood phase, a man (Spencr Tracy) goes to visit his girlfriend in a small town, at which point he is arrested and accused of being a fugitive kidnapper. Drama ensues as he tries to secure justice and avoid being lynched by the irate townspeople.

BONUS: We will also watch the 22-minute short The Private Life of a Cat (1947), an up-close-and-personal look at a cat’s birth and upbringing from avant-garde duo Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren. It looks adorable.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Private Life of a Cat: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-private-life-of-a-cat/
• Climax: https://letterboxd.com/film/climax-2018/
• Fury: https://letterboxd.com/film/fury/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Climax: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16370
• Fury: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027652/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Climax:

• Abusive parents.
• Child abandonment.
• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Sexual assault: everyone s is on drugs when they have sex, so consent is compromised.
• Drugs.
• Stalking.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug addiction.
• Unstable reality.
• Flashing lights.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Slapping of woman.
• Spiked drinks.
• Mention of sexual assault.
• Bullying.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Someone’s hair is burned.
• Body horror.
• Unconsciousness.
• Seizure.
• Torture.
• Stabbing.
• Death of child.
• Drug overdose.
• Cheating.
• Death of parent.
• Shower scene.
• Someone pees on themselves.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Bisexual cheating.
• Self-harm.
• Suicide attempt.
• Meltdown.
• Misophonia.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Suicide.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Crying baby.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Abortion.
• Miscarriage.
• Swastika.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Incest.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Blood and gore.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Fury:

• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Racial slur.
• Lynching.
• Someone is burned alive.

Links to movies:

• The Private Life of a Cat: https://youtu.be/_6e1O_NtK24
• Climax: https://tankie.tube/w/m7jCuVXrJrVcPywxGtunbW
• Fury: https://tankie.tube/w/gXC2yvpGXXkRHmShH4Y15m

Watching it for the first time just I watched Prometheus a week ago and kinda liked it.

And so far I'm liking it but, damn, sending your whole crew down to an UNKNOWN PLANET with not protective equipment? Like wtf, just cuz the atmosphere is breathable doesn't mean there won't be, I dunno, SOME WEIRD ALIEN DISEASE??? As well as several other potentially deadly things, like idk psychic plants or aliens that say hello by ripping your genitals off.

Do characters in SciFi stories ever read SciFi? Come on this is like 101 shit bro.

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If Beyond the Spider-Verse was hitting theaters next summer, we would’ve heard about it by now, as Sony would’ve assigned it a release date.

2026 seems perfectly doable, but I’m told that it would be extremely unlikely that Sony would want to release an animated Spider-Man movie and a live-action Spider-Man movie in the same calendar year, as the studio is better off staggering those two franchises.

So not only is 2027 more likely for that reason alone, but over Labor Day Weekend, I heard that Sony scrapped most of Beyond the Spider-Verse for creative reasons, and because of that decision, the movie would be unlikely to debut before 2027 given the detailed animation it requires.

While the Beyond the Spider-Verse team was taken aback by the change in direction, I’m told they’re relieved to have more time to work on the sequel, as it’s important to all involved that they stick the landing on this Oscar-winning franchise.

i wouldnt fully blame sony for this if you remember that the directors had the worst working conditions

Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was "Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts"

For this 9/11 edition of Super Slop Night, by popular demand, it’s the long-awaited screening of the fifth and six Project A-ko movies, the final entries in the series, which transplant the characters into a completely new setting and otherwise have nothing to do with the previous installments. They’re still fun.

After that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), the latest version of the neverending franchise. It follows a quartet of four anthropomorphic turtle brothers who emerge from the sewers of New York City at 15 years old and interact with humans for the first time. Also, they fight stuff. This is animated in a style similar to Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022). Many are calling it the best version of TMNT ever. I guess we’ll find out. It is the debut feature of director Jeff Rowe, who was previously a writer for The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021).

BONUS: we will also watch The Red Balloon (1956), a short film about a French boy searching for his beloved balloon on the streets of Paris. It is widely considered one of the best short films of all time, even winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It is the only film of note by director Albert Lamorisse, who is better-known as the creator of the board game Risk. Small world.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Project A-ko 5: https://letterboxd.com/film/project-a-ko-versus-battle-1-grey-side/
• Project A-ko 6: https://letterboxd.com/film/project-a-ko-versus-battle-2-blue-side/
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: https://letterboxd.com/film/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem/
• The Red Balloon: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-red-balloon/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Project A-ko 5 & 6: Look, I’m just gonna leave the DTDD link for Ako 1 here, because these contain similar stuff: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/886553
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1036917

CWs for Project A-ko 5 & 6:

• “Man in a dress” jokes. The aliens look like men who dress as women. The characters barely acknowledge this fact directly, but the depiction is still problematic.
• Bugs.
• Stalking.
• Mention of sexual assault (but no depiction).
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Kidnapping.
• Bath scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Plane crash.
• Gun violence.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Objectification of female characters. -Panty shots of high-school-aged girls.

CWs for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem:

• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Abusive parents.
• Stalking.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal abuse.
• Sad animals.
• Alligators.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Someone is crushed to death.
• Choking.
• Body horror.
• Tooth damage.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Torture.
• Eye mutilation.
• Stabbing.
• Kidnapping.
• Death of parent.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Trypophobia.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Electrotherapy.
• Needles.
• PTSD.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Flashing lights.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Babies.
• Car crash.
• Screeching tires.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• The Red Balloon: Forthcoming.
• Project A-ko 5: https://tankie.tube/w/fG9svtTita8W2pnRKwvjnP
• Project A-ko 6: https://tankie.tube/w/am5RHZT1sSzfs1ixkjjDnT
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: https://tankie.tube/w/1pJVt2Gbs2vuLemrH7zMPu

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/theater/james-earl-jones-photos.html

Low budget TV movie that I found recommended on Twitter in the wake of the news breaking on James Earl Jones.

What starts out like what you'd expect of a movie adapting a real alleged abduction actually ends up unfolding into an extremely effective relationship drama as the alleged abduction puts a strain on their mental health and already tenuous social standing as not just a mixed couple but also one featuring a divorced black man, all in the early 60s.

Genuinely top class romantic acting from both James Earl Jones and his co-star Estelle Parsons, with James also turning out some really great acting of panic and terror during the hypnosis scenes.

A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

No thoughts whatsoever on the film but I love this line of the review.

@@@@This comes from above: it's strongly recommended to use a VPN for cytube. @@@@ There was a thread recently about vpns and a few you should explicitly avoid.

The visual cuisine for this Monday night consists of - due to popular demand - the next 3 episodes of the Harley Quinn Anime, Godzilla vs Mothra 1992, and Pickpocket.

The Harley Quinn anime is a popular anime from 2019 about Harley Quinn embarking on her own adventures after finally dumping Joker.

Pickpocket is about a man committing petty theft and consequently feeling guilty about it, from the director of the donkified movie.

Godzilla vs Mothra is about Godzilla, Mothra, and Battra fighting for Earth and its plastic.

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

https://tankie.tube/w/fqijtSjTXyEawBzUUo4d7J

https://tankie.tube/w/rTkX3tWJviHbssyrp72TiB

https://tankie.tube/w/jUirhV5AYzBpizemdY566Z

Pickpocket:

• French "people"
• Smoking
• Cops

https://tankie.tube/w/a73gAgA9dteH3PA6fGjUUH

Godzilla vs Mothra 1992:

• Mild violence and gore
• Alcohol
• Monsters
• Bugs

https://tankie.tube/w/iHm3RB918bGuiq7v261pqF

8 pm est

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 10th 1993 to May 19th 2002 on Fox. During its original run, the program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: The 1998 film The X-Files and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run ended.

The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who investigate the eponymous "X-Files": marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder is a skilled criminal profiler, an ardent supernaturalist, and a conspiracy theorist who believes in the existence of the paranormal, whereas Scully is a medical doctor and skeptic who has been assigned to scientifically analyze Mulder's case files. Early in the series, both agents apparently become pawns in a much larger conflict and so come to trust only each other and a few select people. The agents discover what appears to be a governmental agenda to hide positive proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Mulder and Scully's shared adventures initially lead them to develop a close platonic bond, which by series' end develops into a complex romantic relationship. Roughly one third of the series' episodes follow a complicated mythopoeia-driven story arc about a planned alien invasion, whereas the other two-thirds may be described as "monster of the week" episodes that focus on a singular villain, mutant, or monster.

The X-Files was inspired by earlier television series featuring elements of suspense, horror, and speculative science fiction, including The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside, Twin Peaks, and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker. When creating the main characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer and Scully a skeptic. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson relatively equally. In the eighth and ninth seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced: FBI Special Agents John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), among others. Mulder and Scully's immediate superior, Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), began to appear regularly. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, before production eventually moved to Los Angeles, apparently to accommodate Duchovny's schedule. However, the series later returned to Vancouver with the filming of The X-Files: I Want to Believe as well as the tenth and eleventh seasons.

The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received largely positive reviews, although its long-term story arc was criticized near the conclusion. Initially considered a cult series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories and spirituality. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, and by its conclusion the show was the longest-running science fiction series in U.S. television history. The series also spawned a franchise that includes Millennium and The Lone Gunmen spin-offs, two theatrical films, and accompanying merchandise.

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Ok so it's Netflix slop and it shows in the third act, but the journey is generally enjoyable and has a lot of good pigs being pathetic.

From the AV club review

In short

yesterday I made a post in c/chat lightly making fun of ICP, because I heard about this movie. ended up watching it last night and it honestly fucking blew me away

it's genuinely sincere and heartfelt while also being funny as fuck, like several parts got an audible laugh from me, and I watched it alone. it does get super dark towards the end and there's some gross, disturbing stuff that might not be for everyone, but it's never mean-spirited or cynical and knows just when to pull back and ease the tension with comic relief

it's also very ACAB, as the plot revolves around our two protagonists getting hassled by small-town cops on their way to the Gathering. I don't want to say too much more other than that you should watch it. my only regret was not grabbing a bottle of Faygo first

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