HE SKWOIDS (aka Good Business)

Directed by Ray Sullivan - @directedbyray on insta

Based on the comic "Good Business" by Simon Roy - @simonamroy on insta

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The visual cuisine for tonight consists of more Live action Moon and Cabaret due to popular demand.

Cabaret is about a club entertainer in Nazi germany.

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is Sailor Moon but live action, there is now a channel comprised of the uploaded PGSM episodes: https://tankie.tube/c/sailor_moon_live/videos

At 7 pm est a user will queue multiple episodes of the youtube series Battle for Dream Island.

8 pm est

content warnings:

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/191064?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Children in peril
• Unconsciousness
• Combat
• One of the Sailors has an illness resulting in multiple hospital scenes
• Sadness
• Crossdressing: a male actor plays as a female character for an episode
• Bullying amongst the Sailors
• Misrepresentation of a sexual minority: one of the characters acts as a stereotypical gay man
• A character kisses a non-human character who later transforms into a human child
• Death
• Gross out scenes with food
• Panty shots
• Objectification of women
• A character is essentially possessed/manipulated by an antagonist
• Fourth wall breaks
• Characters frequently speak in broken English
• A punitive teacher
• Hypnotism/mind control

Sailor Moon anime content warnings, which this is based off of:

• 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.

Cabaret

https://tankie.tube/w/4fBdUL5f4kGRPDjGPRe68H

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9053

• A dog dies
• Stalking
• Alcohol
• Mentions of SA
• Implied SA but not depicted
• Nazis and nazi imagery
• Violence
• Blood & gore
• A character is restrained
• Unconsciousness
• Cheating
• Screaming
• Flashing lights
• Abortion is a plot point
• Transphobia and transphobic jokes
• "Man in a dress" jokes
• Fat jokes
• Hate speech
• Sexual objectification
• Multiple mentions of sex
• Sad ending
• Screeching tires

Deadpool & Wolverine is a very popular movie and sometimes I just don't like those, it's been a long time since I have seen a modern superhero movie and I wasn't ready to break that streak for multiple reasons. Superhero movies can be a bit bland, be a little too thin on character and just over-indulgence on visual effects and "comedy" which is what Marvel Studios does.

But this one, oh man. I really enjoyed it and laughed out loud on certain moments and I like that the movie is a homage to all the Fox superhero movies that came before it. Essentially though, of course it's a movie that doesn't make much sense and that is something you have to accept. The physics are inconsistent, sometimes characters look cartoony and ragdoll around and sometimes you get these hyper-intense closed-up action sequences which didn't mesh with me very well. Also the plot is really really dumb and doesn't explain a lot of the story-beats that it sets up in the first 20 minutes and it's predictable as all hell. Plot points are circumstantial and rarely earned, like for example the villain learning about what the heroes plan is or well, I can't spoil.

The thing that works though, like yeah they did write a serviceable plot but they wrote the characters very well. The way Deadpool is written and his whole arc of "wanting to matter" plus Wolverine and his shame, all of that is done beautifully. The action sequences are really great too, lots of gore and the film leaning into that and still finding inventive new ways to kill bad guys is just awesome and I think a cut above the other Deadpool films.

The sound and songs used are hilarious and weird but fit the moment exactly. This movie feels like a road-trip rom-com at times and it works because it can be so charming in those little moments.

I was initially going to give this movie a 7/10 because of the little inconsistencies but watching that mid-credit tribute scene made me really happy as someone who always appreciated the X-Men movies more than the earlier Marvel movies even some of the Phase 3 ones and then watching the commentary or listening to it by Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds made me appreciate the scale of it and all the practical effects they did and the set design, which like- I thought all of it was CG. So yeah, because of making me more appreciative of this film and wanting to rewatch it sometime in the future, I give it a 8/10

The best Marvel Phase 5 movie, and it's the only one I have seen too.

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At (1966), a French slapstick comedy about two French dudes and a downed British bomber crew who must make their way across occupied France during WW2 to escape from the Nazis and flee back to Britain. Hilarity and dude-rocking both ensue as they bumble their way into being slapstick antifa supersoldiers. This is considered one of the all-time classic French comedies, being held in a similar regard by French boomers as, say, Caddyshack (1980) or Blazing Saddles (1974) is among Usians. It remains one of the biggest hits ever at the French box office, and the magnum opus of director Gerard Oury, who specialized in silly comedies.

Next up is The Rider (2017), a horse-themed drama from Nomadland (2020) director Chloe Zhao. After being injured at a rodeo, a horserider is told never to ride again, but god damn it, that doesn’t make for a very interesting movie, so, of cours,e he makes every effort to get back in the saddle. Nice-looking cinematography in this. Excellent reviews, too. 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:

• Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At!: https://letterboxd.com/film/dont-look-now-were-being-shot-at/
• The Rider: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-rider/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At!: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• The Rider: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17783

CWs for Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At!:

• Slapstick violence.
• Nazis.
• French people.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.

CWs for The Rider:

• Drugs.
• Alcohol.
• Death of horse.
• Death of animal.
• Dead animal.
• Shaving.
• Broken bones.
• Seizures.
• Shower scene.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Hospital scene.
• Sad ending.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At!: https://tankie.tube/w/bwsntd6h87CB8F1Ryp2NEV
• The Rider: https://tankie.tube/w/cGY3MXamEuMT5dFhN1qKry

It's incredible what a single animator can do on their computer these days. The models, animation and how they're integrated into the original footage is amazing

Also, sidenote but why are all the new dinosaurs in those Jurassic World movies so fucking ugly? Lack of feathers and other inaccuracies aside, they all look like gnarly video game monsters. The old designs were also embellished or inaccurate but you still got a sense the filmmakers tried to make them feel like actual animals

Amazing episode and superb acting from John Turturro. I audibly gasped a couple times, easily the best new TV I have seen in a while.

his tendency for monologues can be exhausting but Flanagan has become one of my favorite streaming slop producers

Any point in history and genre.

For me, it's Stalker by Tarkovsky. I hadn't seen it before, so I watched it twice. Once on YouTube and then again with the nicest file I could find. I loved it so much. Solaris is the only other one of his I've watched, so I've got all of them downloaded and ready to watch now. (thank our lord, rutracker)

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Argentina, 1985 (2022), an Argentinian courtroom drama about a team of lawyers aiming to punish the ex-leaders of the overthrown fascist military junta (1976-83) for their crimes against humanity, in what remains by far the largest regime-change prosecution effort in Latin American history. And, uhh, the lawyers kinda succeeded? Well, for a little while, anyway. It is the only notable work to date of director Santiago Mitre; he is a one-hit wonder so far. This won a bunch of awards, so we’ll give it a whirl.

After that is Holiday (1938), a screwball romantic comedy starring Cary Grant as a finance-bro who becomes infatuated with the daughter (Katharine Hepburn) of a rich banker. They hit it off and become engaged, but he wants to go on a holiday, while she wants him to go work in her dad’s bank. Hilarity ensues as he wrangles with his soon-to-be in-laws over his expected subservience to the family business. This is one of the highest-rated movies of the 1930s on Letterboxd, as well as one of the best films of prolific Hollywood workhorse George Cukor, so 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:

• Argentina, 1985: https://letterboxd.com/film/argentina-1985/
• Holiday: https://letterboxd.com/film/holiday/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Argentina, 1985: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/944000
• Holiday: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/100343

CWs for Argentina, 1985:

• Discussion of sexual assault. Not depicted.
• Stalking.
• Child abuse.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Kidnapping.
• Torture.
• Cheating.
• Hospital scene.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Shaky cam.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Hate speech.
• Explosion.

CWs for Holiday:

• Slapstick violence.
• Parental neglect.
• Rich people.

Links to movies:

• Argentina, 1985: https://tankie.tube/w/78TkdTS58wvgYGGsP93o9o
• Holiday: https://tankie.tube/w/nVneYYsLRJSAZx1ekQjWjB

The Dark Crystal is the precursor to Jim Henson's cult-classic Labyrinth, which I saw first before coming to this movie. It's about a young hero who sets out to bring a shard of the Dark Crystal to heal it and restore the world. I always thought The Dark Crystal would be a different watch because even though the director is the same for both movies, they have a very major difference in my opinion. That difference is the lack of any humans whatsoever in the movie. You see, The Dark Crystal is a high-fantasy type of film, set in it's own world and mythology and history. That alone makes things difficult for me, because I have never been able to watch LOTR: TFOTR without falling asleep and sure enough, I yawned through the entire third act and actually closed my eyes and half-slept through the brief credits before realizing the movie was over.

The presentation aspect of this is much more focused than Labyrinth's, while the later movie feels grander simply because it leads through many different looking places and settings, The Dark Crystal feels better realized and just as well good because the one setting it primarily uses, the forest, is beautifully made with a lot of absurd and weird looking creatures. It's a classic visually insane film, aside from a few VFX shots that look dated as hell.

The second thing that I really enjoyed about this is the world-buikding, while the setup is the most basic of "Hero's Journey" stories that we have been getting ever since LOTR ig, the movie atleast earnestly makes up for it with a very unique world and mythology where the whole concept of quality is seen as actually being fractured from a single whole. This speaks to a very Buddhist mythology and theme which the film comes back to again and again, I really enjoy new world-building that is not obese with over-exposition and The Dark Crystal rarely says anything about it, preferring a visual presentation more.

The story, the acting, the direction everything is great. The puppets are amazing, they're so very expressive and fun to look at and there are more serious depictions of adult themes like slavery than in Labyrinth. During the start of the third-act, there is a very minor ass-pull that felt like I was cheated as an audience member but aside from that everything was fine.

The soundtrack doesn't really play an important role in the film but the sound design of all the different creatures and the world is atleast there to make up for it.

7.5/10 Again, It's not that I didn't like it. I do have opinions about it's aspects and how it's made and everything, it's just that I think I didn't enjoy it as much as Labyrinth which I gave a 9.5/10

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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 Bacurau (2019), a Brazilian satirical acid western about a town out in the desert in northeast Brazil; it lives in matriarchal harmony, until suddenly, the head matriarch dies, and everything goes out of whack. Weather patterns start screwing up, animals start going crazy, and the town has disappeared from all of the maps. What’s going on? Time to solve a mystery, in surreal fashion, often accompanied by drug use. This is the most popular film to date from director Kleber Mendonca Filho, who is otherwise known for the landlord class-drama Aquarius (2016); we haven’t watched that one yet.

After that is Scream (2022), the fifth installment in the ever-popular meta-horror series. In this installment, guess what? Ghostface is back, and he’s killing a new generation of movie-obsessed youths, using the series’ legacy as a blueprint for his massacre. You’d better believe Sidney, Gale, and Dewey are all back to kick some butt, though. Wes Craven died in 2015, so the duo of Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin have taken his place in the director’s chair; they are otherwise best-known for Ready or Not (2019), which we have not yet watched.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Bacurau: https://letterboxd.com/film/bacurau/
• Scream: https://letterboxd.com/film/scream-2022/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Bacurau: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/20008
• Scream: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/854898

CWs for Bacurau:

• Death of dog.
• Stalking.
• Drug use.
• Alcohol.
• Dead animal.
• Death of pet.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Prostitution.
• Sexual assault: the prostitution mentioned above is coerced. The actual act is not directly shown, though.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Stabbing.
• Someone is buried alive.
• Amputation.
• Squashed head.
• Hand damage.
• Torture.
• Blood and gore.
• Death of child.
• Death of parent.
• Shower scene.
• Jump scares.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Suicide attempt.
• Claustrophobia.
• Shaky cam.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Black guy dies first.
• Hate speech.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sex.
• Car crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Scream:

• Blood and gore.
• Child abandonment.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Discussion of sexual assault. Not depicted.
• Stalking.
• Domestic violence.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Slapping of woman.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Someone is crushed to death.
• Choking.
• Squashed head.
• Hanging.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Torture.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Stabbing.
• Death of child.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Death of family member.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Cheating.
• Jump scares.
• Audio gore.
• Incarceration.
• Mental illness.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Misophonia.
• Anxiety attacks.
• PTSD.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Homophobia.
• Ableism.
• Fat jokes.
• Loss of virginity.
• Sex.
• Honking horns.
• Car crash.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Bacurau: https://tankie.tube/w/pusqhtkNwmED1QDGfjTtwi
• Scream: https://tankie.tube/w/vbNz4sUTAbD521TsFbHogr