Television

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16039719

This series started last week, but it continues tonight Friday the 13th through November 1st.

The films are drawn from a list compiled by The New Republic last year of the 100 most impactful political movies.

The films encompass both documentaries and dramatized works; most are American, while a few are from other countries. Their release dates range from 1915 (The Birth of a Nation) to 2016 (I Am Not Your Negro). Many will have celebrity presenters introducing them, along with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

From Hollywood Reporter:

The series runs Sept. 6 to Nov. 1 — four days before America votes for its next president — and features TCM host Ben Mankiewicz in conversation with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Lee Grant, Sally Field, Andy Garcia, Melissa Etheridge, John Turturro, Bill Maher, Alexander Payne, Diane Lane, Josh Mankiewicz, Barry Levinson, Maureen Dowd, Stacey Abrams and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

More from the Advocate:

LGBTQ+ issues won’t be neglected. I Am Not Your Negro, for instance, is a documentary based onan unfinished manuscript by Black gay writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, reflecting on the lives of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Baldwin himself. The Times of Harvey Milk(1984) will be featured, presented by Sally Field, the proud mother of a gay son. Also scheduled are 1964’s The Best Man, scripted by gay writer Gore Vidal, in which a same-sex liaison threatens to derail a politician’s career, and Born in Flames, director Lizzie Borden’s 1983 vision of a dystopian future in which women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color are oppressed.

Borden will be among the celebrity presenters, introducing Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman’s 1975 feminist feature about a widow engaged in sex work. Melissa Etheridge will be a presenter as well, discussing the 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Times listed are for Eastern Time. I've skipped last week and bolded titles ranked in the top 20.

Friday, September 13 - Night Two

• 8:00 PM Reds (1981) (Bill Maher - #41)
• 11:30 PM The Parallax View (1974) (Kyle Smith - #47)
• 1:30 AM Germany, Year Zero (1948) (Alexander Payne - #97)
• 3:00 AM Gabriel Over the White House (1933) (#30)
• 4:30 AM The Battleship Potemkin (1925) (#7)
• 6:00 AM The Fog of War (2003) (#56)

Friday, September 20 - Night Three

• 8:00 PM Dr. Strangelove (1964) (Spike Lee - #3)
• 9:45 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Stacey Abrams - #11)
• 12:15 AM Hearts and Minds (1974) (Phil Mattingly - #39)
• 2:15 AM The Lives of Others (2006) (#19)
• 4:45 AM Born in Flames (1983) (#43)
• 6:15 AM Bicycle Thieves (1948) (#52)

Friday, September 27 - Night Four

• 8:00 PM Three Days of the Condor (1975) (Maureen Dowd - #72)
• 10:15 PM I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (Sara Sidner - #58)
• 12:00 AM The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Melissa Etheridge - #88)
• 1:30 AM The Last Hurrah (1958) (#57)
• 3:45 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968) (#35)
• 5:15 AM The Tin Drum (1979) (#92)

Friday, October 4 - Night Five

• 8:00 PM The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) (Sally Field - #81)
• 10:00 PM The Best Man (1964) (Josh Mankiewicz - #69)
• 12:00 AM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (Sec. Lonnie Bunch III - #95)
• 1:45 AM City Hall (1996) (#80)
• 3:45 AM Strike (1924) (#25)
• 5:15 AM High and Low (1963) (#84)

Friday, October 11 - Night Six

• 8:00 PM A Face in the Crowd (1957) (Barry Levinson - #10)
• 10:15 PM Wag the Dog (1997) (Diane Lane - #54)
• 12:00 AM The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) (Abby Phillip - #37)
• 1:45 AM JFK (1991) (#34)
• 5:00 AM Z (1969) (#15)
• 7:15 AM Night and Fog (1956) (#21)

Friday, October 18 - Night Seven

• 8:00 PM The Birth of a Nation (1915) (Jamelle Bouie - #5)
• 11:30 PM Lincoln (2012) (Hon. Robert M. Gates - #24)
• 2:15 AM Malcolm X (1992) (#22)
• 6:00 AM Primary (1960) (#38)

Friday, October 25 - Night Eight

• 8:00 PM All the President’s Men (1976) (Steven Spielberg - #4)
• 10:30 PM Citizen Kane (1941) (Frank Luntz - #33)
• 12:45 AM Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Lizzie Borden - #36)
• 4:15 AM Olympia Part One: Festival of Nations (1938) (#86)
• 6:15 AM Olympia Part Two: Beauty of the Festival (1938) (#86)

Friday, November 1 - Night Nine

• 8:00 PM Being There (1979) (Andy Garcia - #71)
• 10:30 PM The Candidate (1972) (Kaitlan Collins - #20)
• 12:30 AM Harlan County USA (1976) (Lee Grant - #12)
• 2:15 AM The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (#2)
• 4:00 AM Weekend (1967) (#94)

It’s entirely impossible to find, please help

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17568605

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9cFeZ

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2434741

Couldn't find a "TV" or "television" comm (which we need).

What did everyone think of the finale? I liked it! Finally, a good ending for once. Great stuff, good ending. Just what I wanted.

And it ended logically too.

Of course, this is a later set-up for Thrawn.

We got no Palpatine in the end there.

Lots of impressive shots from the cinematography. Well-done angles there.

Glad Omega became a pilot for the Rebel Allliance.

At least some people get their happy ending in the end in this galaxy.

Too much war and too much "dark times."

We need good stuff happening for once, otherwise what they fight for is worthless.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2397084

How is The Bad Batch going for all of you?

Enjoying it so far?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2397084

How is The Bad Batch going for all of you?

Enjoying it so far?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2396953

Check it out.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2293972

It was great!

...Though not good for newcomers to the series or perhaps people that never ever played the video games to begin with.

If you haven't played the games, you probably won't enjoy this series.

But I loved it through and through, from beginning to end (though episode 6 weirded me out).

Also, the Fallout humor was on point.

Like, it's clear that Jonathan Nolan wanted this to be a love letter to the franchise (and it... kinda bonks you on the head about it?)

Yeah, it does bonk you on the head about it and it's amazing that the first season turned out as well as it did (given that at times it seems that they're going by a check-list of "Fallout things" to show).

It's like... Robo-brain? Check. Yaou Guai? Check. Ghouls? Check. Lore-accurate BoS (more or less)? Check. NCR? Check.

I loved it! ...But again, it's clearly not geared toward newer audiences.

And that's fine (in a way).

If it was sort-of holding your hand... it wouldn't be nearly as good, you know?

And it really does encapsulate the video game series well.

I mean, it's literally got side-quests and a moral dilemma at the end there.

Also, American monopoly capitalism looks bad here. Really bad.

I take back what I said about the series being "kinda liberal."

I mean, yes, there's no "alternative" to capitalism but a wasteland, essentially (even as it is anti-capitalist, clearly), but it definitely portrays the corporate monopolists well.

Oh yeah, and shout-out to having actual reds in this series (one was apparently Indigenous too).

Kinda vague on whether or not Moldaver was a communist.

I wonder if my own CPUSA was around in 2077? I'm guessing they were, but they would have to still be a staunchly pro-Soviet part (and thus, perhaps, anti-China) due to the Fallout lore.

(The Party was anti-China until 1991 and you all know what happened in 1991 in our own timeline.)

But honestly, it was good. But damn, they're going to have to pick up all the threads they left hanging and that's going to be hard to do. The first season also had a problem of certain things that either happened too fast or they happened and then were resolved quickly.

Also, sometimes, the season kept flashing or showing things on-screen and it's hard to kinda keep up with it all (again, sort-of going back to the check-list problem). Like, the season was jam-packed... which is great... in a way... It grabs your attention but at times, it goes by too fast and then it really does feel like a video game (in a bad way, that is).

Also also, sometimes things happened for the sake of the plot (looking at Maximus releasing the dad at the end there... even though while, yes, it makes sense given that the main protagonist was still recovering from the shock, it's also a bit too convenient for the sake of the story).

Also also also, shout-out to the Robert House (RobCo) cameo.

Also also also also, I really hope this isn't the only Fallout media in the next few years.

Like, yeesh, Bethesda, just give the license or IP to Obsidian or Larian (maybe make a isometric RPG like the old days?) and have them do a spin-off (while you focus on the "main" titles). I mean, come on, it can't be that hard, right? Then again, I'm not a CEO or a stakeholder or on the Board of Directors or whatever.

So, err, yeah.

It was very good.

Flawed.

But very good (imho, don't @ me!).

Watch it if you're a Fallout fan, at the very least.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2280346

It's good.

I liked it.

But none of that famous American sport that we all love.... Baseball! The game of America!

(Idk, I'm making fun of American jingoism now.)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2207504

Jedi do not kidnap.

Adoption is not kidnapping by itself (though it certainly can be in, for example, U.S. history).

The Sith clearly kidnap.

I don't like how The Acolyte is changing this.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1693436

Can't wait!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1613704

I'm not surprised, but then again, I am a member of this org lmao

include ota btw

I used to use the /r/television sidebar but it isn't very comprehensive. More recently I've been using Wikipedia's 2023 in American Television page, specifically the debuts page, which is good. Some other countries have their own pages, such as South Korea.

Know of any other good places?

It's back and as good as before, the first 10 minutes really shows that this series has the best fight scenes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/922307

This is a spoiler-free review

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Let's start with the obvious: the animation is brilliant. It's MAPPA after all. The production quality on this show is very good, and leaves very little to be desired. Sure, it's not the pinnacle of modern animation, but it's more than serviceable, and it posed no issue whatsoever.

Regardless, this show is very interesting, visually. The characters too, but mostly the environment is totally CRAZY! It's weird, and beautiful, and creepy. The flowers are just stunning, and knowing what they mean in the story just adds a special layer to such stunning visuals.

The voice acting (sub) is great as well, but the general sound design was subpar. I felt like a lot of scenes were very silent, and not in a cool or creepy kinda way, just in a "they didn't know what to put in the background" kinda way... The OP is a TOTAL BANGER though, and it was hard to skip, honestly.

Still, all of this isn't that big of a deal if the plot and the characters make up for it.

But they didn't really.

There's a varied cast with their quirky personalities and origin stories, but they're so poorly explored that that barely matters. The only characters that have any emotional weight are Gabimaru (MC) and Sagiri (MC). To be fair, these two do have very compelling backstories and cool chemistry. The rest of the cast either didn't have enough screen-time for us to truly engage with their stories, or had basically NO backstory at all.

Gabimaru specifically is a very emotional character. His struggle with his up-bringing, with love, family, and freedom is really compelling, and so is Sagiri's struggle with human nature, sexism, and her place in the world.

The plot is just OK. The setup is awesome, and promises a lot of action and adventure with lots of tension and high stakes, but that just ends up not being the case. We spend most of the time watching cool fight scenes. The fight scenes are very cool, sure, but where's the substance? I think a big problem is that Gabimaru is way too strong. His plot armour is just too much...

And the ending... I mean, come on. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE! If they were gonna end the show like this, it should've just been a 24/25 episode release. I know S2 is already in the works, but this season simply felt incomplete.

Well, the show does a lot of things right, and a few things wrong. If more time was spent developing the characters and advancing the plot this would've been way more satisfying. For that reason, I'm still looking forward to the second season.

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Rating: 3/5

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/543614

This is a SPOILER FREE review.

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Horror done PERFECTLY.

"FROM" is creepy, desperate, and hopeful. Every second is crawling with this sense of imminent dread. Time is ticking, and ticking, and ~ticking~... And they can't escape. But they still hope that that might change.

The characters are brilliant. From father Khatri to Boyd to Jim to Jade, they all serve their purpose perfectly, and the more secondary characters also manage to flawlessly push the plot forward, as well as provide some much needed reprieve from the main storyline of the show. Because the main storyline is INTENSE!

The way the different personalities clash and slow things down, beautiful chaos. Even just the dynamic between the town and the colony house! The best part, really, is how much power is in the hands of the people, how much THEY control their life in the town. And how much one person can doom so many others.

Still, my favourite thing about the show is the very clear theme of family. That's what moves everything, they all lost family, and they all found family in that accursed town. I love that.

The audio and the visual are both great. Everything is set up magnificently to give the viewer that rising terror.

The only real criticism I have is the acting. It's not bad, but it's not that great either. I wasn't familiar with any of the actors before watching this show, but I'm not exactly looking forward to what they might do next. Still, it doesn't really take away that much from the show, since they do a good enough job of conveying everything that needs conveying; occasionally they knock it out of the park too.

This season left a lot of mystery to solve; more loose threads than I can count.

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Watch on MGM+!
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I found that thread really useful on Reddit for finding new shows to watch and look into.

For me this week it’s mostly Lucky Hank and need to catch up with Silo. Been quiet week since a load of shows ended.

It was announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that Adult Swim's Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal Season 3 is in production.