I'm binging on The Night Gallery and it's disappointing. Sometimes I laugh at the unintentional humor. Without a pentagram inside - the five pointed star has zero demonic swagger. It's just a star inside a circle.

It's from "The Phantom Farmhouse" and the palms belong to a hippie-ish guitar playing guy played by David Carradine.

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

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

Godzilla vs Biollante

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097444/parentalguide

• Violence
• Mild profanity
• Gun violence
• Blood
• Corpses
• Massive monsters
• Light profanity
• Smoking
• A character is lit on fire

https://tankie.tube/w/xxcigrrzraRG7YHJLMRBvF

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Ritual (2000), the best-known and best-reviewed of Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno’s live-action films. It centers on the attempts of an amateur filmmaker to connect with a teenage girl who he spots wandering the streets and muttering the same phrase every day. Romance ensues, along with Anno’s signature monologues on existentialism and so on. Looks pretty neat, so let’s check it out. Currently ranked #224 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time.

Next is The Roaring Twenties (1939), one of the best-regarded films of old-timey gangster star James Cagney. He is one of a trio of World War I veterans who return home and struggle to find work, only for a new opportunity to show up with the advent of Prohibition. They get into the burgeoning racket in illicit alcohol, which brings them into conflict with the feds. Will they get a happy ending? Probably not. Director is Raoul Walsh, who also did the equally well-regarded Cagney vehicle White Heat (1949).

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Ritual: https://letterboxd.com/film/ritual-2000/
• The Roaring Twenties: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-roaring-twenties/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Ritual: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269856/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
• The Roaring Twenties: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031867/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_stry_4

CWs for Ritual:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Panic attacks.
• Hallucinations.
• Depression.
• Suicidal ideation.

CWs for The Roaring Twenties:

• Gun violence.
• Kissing.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Blood.
• Fistfighting.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Ritual: https://tankie.tube/w/joRg9wSt3sfNPTjUwDFmVb
• The Roaring Twenties: https://tankie.tube/w/r3dqswDxdYapgjB9MQQUue

We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese.

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Kagemusha (1980), one of the most critically-acclaimed films of one of the most renowned filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurosawa. It is a war epic set in feudal Japan, concerning a petty thief who finds himself enlisted to impersonate a deceased warlord. As he cements his place in his new role, he is torn between his inability to fit in with the social mores of the military-nobility class, and his drive to inhabit the warlord’s life seamlessly, so that he may exert his power to its fullest extent. Universal praise for this one, so let’s check it out.

After that is Lovers Rock (2020), a romance from Steve McQueen, whose films Hunger (2008) and Mangrove (2020) we previously watched. It is part of the “Small Axe” collection of five films (all centering on Black British life, though otherwise unrelated) that he released simultaneously in 2020. The film is set during a wild house party in 1980s London, and sees a dude and a lady meeting and beginning their romance while racial, class, and political tensions threaten to explode around them. Excellent reviews for this one, so we’ll give it a try.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Kagemusha: https://letterboxd.com/film/kagemusha/
• Lovers Rock: https://letterboxd.com/film/lovers-rock-2020/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Kagemusha: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_stry_4
• Lovers Rock: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for Kagemusha:

• Blood and gore.
• Deaths of animals.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Gun violence.
• Infidelity.
• Implied sex.

CWs for Lovers Rock:

• Kissing.
• Grinding on dance floor.
• Racism.
• Alcohol.
• Drugs.
• Shaky cam.
• Fistfighting.
• Implied sexual assault.

Links to movies:

• Kagemusha: https://tankie.tube/w/sTqcSFRMXP7c1KgWWVKV5w
• Lovers Rock: https://tankie.tube/w/7DLkwbJ4Z71b5FyfCdPxjN

Don't have huge expectations. The film's message wasn't super deep. But it was somewhat fun.

Nowadays, I gauge the experience of a film by well it avoids pointless filler dialogue like Deadpool and Wolverine.

I heard it’s cool sci-fi with some connections to the cultural revolution in China. Is it rabidly anti communist or actually kinda based? I love some good sci-fi so I might watch it either way, but I prefer space communism ideally

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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 25th Hour (2002), a crime drama from renowned auteur Spike Lee, whose work, surprisingly, we have never watched on Hextube. Edward Norton stars as a convicted drug dealer living out his last day before starting his prison sentence, making preparations with his friends and family and walking the post-9/11 urban hellscape known as New York City. Actually, it was the first theatrical feature film to mention 9/11 at all. Highly critically-acclaimed; let’s watch.

After that is Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972), the third installment in the grindhousey Japanese samurai action series starring a rogue swordsman and his increasingly-sickofied child protege. They kill a whole lot of bad guys in creatively gory fashion. We watched the first two films some time ago, but not this one, which is about as well-regarded. As with the others, this one contains some sleazy sex stuff too, which is pretty much par for the course for this sort of film, but be forewarned.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• 25th Hour: https://letterboxd.com/film/25th-hour/
• Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades: https://letterboxd.com/film/lone-wolf-and-cub-baby-cart-to-hades/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• 25th Hour: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8475
• Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068817/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for 25th Hour:

• Death of dog.
• Animal abuse.
• 9/11.
• Hate speech.
• Flashing lights.
• Blood and gore.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Sexual assault: a bad guy attempts to r*pe a woman, but is stopped.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Blood and gore.
• Dismemberment.
• Child endangerment.

Links to movies:

• 25th Hour: https://tankie.tube/w/1AGujWxfdRMzuJAUs5SRnU
• Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades: https://tankie.tube/w/m7jCuVXrJrVcPywxGtunbW

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Duel to the Death (1983), a Hong Kong wuxia film set in 16th-century China about a duel between the top swordsmen in China and Japan. Outside forces seek to rig the fight, and the supporters of the respective combatants attempt to intervene. Who will survive? I guess we’ll find out. Director is Tony Ching Siu-Tung, who is otherwise best-known for A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), which we have not yet watched.

After that is Glass Onion (2022), the sequel to Knives Out (2019). As with its predecessor, it is a murder-mystery comedy following the silly adventures of Southern detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he tries to uravel a web of intrigue surrounding a rich tech-bro and his douchebag friends. Hilarity and satire ensue. Director is Rian Johnson, the guy behind both the first film, as well as, Looper (2012), and, uhh, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). 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:

• Duel to the Death: https://letterboxd.com/film/duel-to-the-death/
• Glass Onion: https://letterboxd.com/film/glass-onion/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Duel to the Death: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084924/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Glass Onion: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/688430

CWs for Duel to the Death:

• Nudity.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Dismemberment.
• Alcohol.

CWs for Glass Onion:

• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Alcohol abuse.
• A woman is slapped.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Asphyxiation.
• Unconsciousness.
• Drug overdose.
• Cheating.
• Death of family member.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Destruction of priceless artifact.
• Needles.
• Suicide.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Antisemitism.
• Age gap.
• Sex.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Car crash.
• Honking horns.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Duel to the Death: https://tankie.tube/w/usKihAryuXZ2dD6uobjM2x
• Glass Onion: https://tankie.tube/w/ob5Z9NPvMfHVAohwBNXu3c

Uh, spoilers I guess for TNG season 2 generally and TMoaM specifically.

We're watching TNG for the first time (not counting seeing random out of order episodes when my aunt was watching me decades ago) and so far season 2 is definitely better, but the dehumanization of Data has been driving me up a wall.

This fuckin doctor who isn't Beverly Crusher consistently treating him like a thing and even being smug about it as she learns that she's wrong was bad enough to start with

But now we have this asshole calling him "it" repeatedly and saying that he's Starfleet property, doing the "well if one of Data's best friends doesn't make a sincere argument that he's a nonperson, I'll just immediately declare that he's a nonperson" etc.

Just unreal "justice system" brain worms. Oh is the question of whether this individual, who clearly has feelings and desires, deserves to have literally any personal rights more fitting for "saints and philosophers" you dumb lawyer hog

And finally the smug science nerd space fascist right here.

This guy's insistence that in spite of not understanding Data's construction at all basically, he should be allowed to vivisect him and poke around in his brain was absurd. Like, once people start asking him any questions about his plans for the experiment he immediately makes it clear that he doesn't know shit and hasn't considered the dangers to Data at all. The moment during the trial when Picard demands that he distinguish the traits that Picard demands has and Data lacks that makes only Picard sentient and he whines that the question is "difficult" holy shit I was funing. He loses the court case obviously but frankly I am mad that (and I know that TNG isn't this show) nobody shot him in the head with a phaser.

I know it's now an old saw but it's amazing how bad google and youtube can be. I just learned the term translight and I wanted a short video example yet I couldn't find one that didn't involve marketing. There must be some such results at youtube but if google's search algos are shit - google and youtube will never give show them to me.

Translight

A Translight or Translite is a large illuminated film backing typically used as a backdrop in the film and TV industry. The name of Translite originally came from the black-and-white display film made by the Eastman Kodak Company. Pacific Studios in Los Angeles was the sole producer of Translites from about 1950 until about 1979. Technicians there projected images in a darkroom onto the film in strips, which were then removed and processed by hand in tanks by the darkroom crew.

The strips were seamed with tape; then oil paint was applied to the assembled picture for a tinted color effect. The name gradually was applied to any transparency lit from behind and used as a background picture for feature films or television production. Full-color printing of a Translight was first used on the motion picture One from the Heart.

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The visual cuisine for tonight is, due to popular demand, two more episodes of season 5 of The Sopranos and Godzilla Tokyo Sos.

The Sopranos is a show about Tony and his two families; Godzilla Tokyo Sos is about Godzilla, a robot version of Godzilla, and Mothra fighting while Tokyo asks for help.

9 pm est

content warnings:

Sopranos:

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

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

• 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

https://tankie.tube/w/5GKP3Akrveq7nA5Yo6joSe

https://tankie.tube/w/8QyHzNBom8zPKbhqhjXsDM

Godzilla Tokyo Sos

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366526/parentalguide

• One of the monsters is a large bug
• Mild nudity
• Violence and large scale destruction with monsters
• Mild gore
• Explosions
• Blood
• Mild profanity
• Alcohol

https://tankie.tube/w/xgz1HTUHDS9rWwGPXoF6Md

9 pm est