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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, first up is War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) and War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967), the third and fourth installments of the four-part, seven-hour Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic 1867 novel of the same name. In the third part, Napoleon invades Russia in 1812, bringing the Napoleonic Wars to their bloody climax as he captures Moscow and the opposing armies meet at Borodino. Part IV follows the aftermath, as Napoleon retreats from Russia, his army gradually devastated by hunger, cold, and skirmishes. This is considered the magnum opus of director Sergey Bondarchuk, who is otherwise best-known for the similarly-themed Waterloo (1970). The four parts as a whole are considered one of the greatest films of all time, so let’s watch.

After that is Island of Lost Souls (1932), the first adaptation of HG Wells’ classic sci-fi horror novel The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896). Deranged maniac Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) lures unsuspecting visitors to his private island, where he forces them to the test subjects of horrifying genetic experiments. Can anyone stop this madman before he succeeds in his goal of creating a race of superpowered mutants that obey his every whim? I guess we’ll find out. Director Erle C. Kenton dealt mostly in low-budget horror sequels, such as The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and House of Dracula (1945); this is his best-known and best-regarded work, and one of the better-reviews horror films of the 1930s in general.

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Letterboxd:

• War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812: https://letterboxd.com/film/war-and-peace-part-iii-the-year-1812/
• War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov: https://letterboxd.com/film/war-and-peace-part-iv-pierre-bezukhov/
• Island of Lost Souls: https://letterboxd.com/film/island-of-lost-souls/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• War and Peace: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063794/parentalguide/
• Island of Lost Souls: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/44664

CWs for War and Peace:

• Kissing.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Death in childbirth.
• Nudity.
• Gun violence.
• Explosions.
• War crimes.
• Blood.
• Alcohol.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Island of Lost Souls:

• Cruelty to animals.
• Stalking.
• Snakes.
• Sexual assault: a bad guy attempts to r*pe a woman, though he does not get far. Another character is implied to be a sex slave.
• Someone is physically restrained..
• Torture.
• Cheating.
• Kidnapping.
• Hospital scene.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Implied sex.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812: https://tankie.tube/w/dJLBBuGbawBZCcriyXkDB9
• War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov: https://tankie.tube/w/b9peiuugMbSb5QHUm2F9RQ
• Island of Lost Souls: https://tankie.tube/w/6HLDxz3nDkJ1g9wwEsKA4P

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is The Long Walk (2025), a dystopian thriller adapted from Stephen King’s 1979 novel of the same name. In a fascist 1970s America, a group of teenage boys are forced to join an annual death-march contest, in which they all walk themselves to death until only a single contestant survives. Pretty much The Hunger Games, but for walking. Fittingly, the director, Francis Lawrence, helmed four of the five Hunger Games movies. Solid reviews for this, so let’s give it a whirl.

BONUS: between the slop, we will have a kino interlude, featuring Kenneth Anger's 14-minute surreal gay art film Fireworks (1947). Looks pretty neat.

After that is Baby Assassins: Nice Days (2024), the sequel to Baby Assassins (2021) and Baby Assassins: 2 Babies (2023), both of which we previously watched. It is a Japanese action-comedy about a pair of high-school girls who are both secretly assassins who are forced to shack up together while they make ends meet with odd jobs, all while avoiding the yakuza. This time around, the girls decide to go to a seaside resort town for a vacation, but uh-oh, an elite assassin is on their tail, forcing them into action once again. Will they kick even more butt this time? I guess we’ll find out, after a whole lot of blood, gore, and silly antics. Director Yugo Sakamoto returns from the first two films. This is generally considered the best entry of the trilogy.

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Letterboxd:

• The Long Walk: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-long-walk-2025/
• Baby Assassins: Nice Days: https://letterboxd.com/film/baby-assassins-nice-days/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Long Walk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/84639
• Baby Assassins: Nice Days: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1626454

CWs for The Long Walk:

• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Bugs.
• Jokes about sexual assault on men.
• Bullying.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Toe mutilation.
• Tooth damage.
• Throat mutilation.
• Amputation.
• Someone struggles to breathe
• Broken bones.
• Stabbing.
• Dislocations.
• Seizures.
• Death by crushing.
• Death of child.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Spitting.
• Pooping.
• Someone soils themselves.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• PTSD.
• Dissociation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Mental illness.
• Meltdown.
• Flashing lights.
• Jump scares.
• Gun violence.
• Profanity.
• Screaming.
• Homophobia.
• Ableism.
• Hate speech.
• Discussion of religion.
• Nudity.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Baby Assassins: Nice Days:

• Blood and gore.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Gun violence.
• Death of parent.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Choking.
• Death of family member.
• Stalking.
• Stabbing.
• Bullying.
• Screaming.
• Unconsciousness.

Links to movies:

• The Long Walk: https://tankie.tube/w/mi2rCYFPfDo1HD5pi6bdUy
• Baby Assassins: Nice Days: https://tankie.tube/w/kPhSnkqVy7LmY1yY774AVm

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Once again I'm starting a bit earlier to give myself more time to show stuff.

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Overview

• Reserved time: 210 minutes
• An t-Eilean E3+4: 99 minutes
  • Each part is ~50 minutes
• Fanime: 41 minutes
  • Each fanime is ~10 minutes
• Esperanto short films: 8 minutes
  • Each short is <5 minutes
• TV☆3SIS flourishes: 10 minutes
• Estimated door-holding: 15 minutes
• Estimated slack: 37 minutes

The spoonful of sugar

An t-Eilean

An t-Eilean ("The Island") is a Scottish Gaelic crime drama TV miniseries produced for BBC Alba by Black Camel Pictures and broadcast in January 2025. We watched the first two out of four parts last Wednesday and weren't too impressed, but maybe it'll pick up in the second half. Plot description from English Wikipedia:

Set in the Outer Hebrides, four Maclean siblings (Eilidh, Calum, Ruaraidh and Sìne) return to their family home after the shooting death of their mother, Lady Mary with their father, Sir Douglas being questioned by police.[1] Former resident, Kat Crichton is assigned as family liaison officer to the Macleans by her boss, DCI Ahmed Halim. Initially Mary's death is presented as a robbery gone wrong, with Douglas seriously wounded by a gun-wielding masked intruder.

The medicine

What is fanime?

A fanime (etym. blend of fan + anime) is basically when someone makes an anime-style cartoon show by drawing frames in MS Paint; compositing them in Windows Movie Maker with pirated music, stock sound effects, and dialog recorded in one take on potato microphones; and posting the result to YouTube. This isn't necessarily accurate of all fanime, but the throughline is in any case that fanime is a form of democratized amateur animation combining anime aesthetics with "Internet Ugly". The style is most associated with the Western anime fandom of the mid-2000s through mid-2010s, where it was often difficult to distinguish sincere fanime shows from parodies of the genre.

Terrance Terribly Troubled and PRISM

Terrance Terribly Troubled is a 2017~2018 two-episode unfinished shôjo-inspired slice of life drama fanime by Mari (he/him), better known as Kawaiiouija. The series is on an indefinite hiatus, alongside Mari's other fanime, because his voice dropped, which means he can't voice the characters anymore.

Mari is better known as the creator of Tokyo Magic Star, a pretty influential fanime that Kisaka Toriama of Tokyo Crystal Mew fame is a fan of. We will watch Tokyo Magic Star on May 27 and August 5, unless I find some way to redo my schedule so we don't watch the two halves so far apart. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

For now, a plot summary of Terrance Terribly Troubled from Fanime Realm:

"When I wish upon a star...I will become the person I have always wished to be?" Terrance Terribly Troubled is a dramatic slice of life and shoujo-inspired animated series of a meteor shower raining above a small town in Japan known for their starry skies. Residents are told to "wish upon a star" every shower. When protagonist Terrance follows a meteor that seems to land rather than burn out, he finds a girl who acts as if she had been caught in a crime. Crawling out of the crater, the girl runs off, leaving {Terrance terribly troubled.|:for-when-they-say-the-thing:} The next morning, the town is full of life, no one is who they were the day before, and no one seems to remember who they were the day before. However, Terrance is exactly the same and hasn't forgotten a thing. "Are you happy with who you are, Terrance, or do you not know who you are at all?" Filled with growing friendships, romances, lost memories, and the pursuit of happiness, Terrance Terribly Troubled is a show of nothing but self discovery and realizing one's self worth.

PRISM is a 2011 single-episode fanime by Dagian Drupe (they/them). It is not on Fanime Realm, the description on YouTube is really vague, and I'm not going to watch it before you all, so I can't really say anything about the plot or genre or whatever. All I can really say is that Dagian evidently abandoned the project pretty quickly. You may remember Dagian as the creator of Twinkle Girls, Sakura Ai, and Rebels Against The School, which we watched previously and weren't too impressed by; and Welcome to the Panties Warfront, which we watched fairly recently and was a certified banger. They were also co-creator of the certified banger My Jungle Book, Your Year, which was one of the first fanime I showed last year. So all in all, Dagian Drupe is a fanimetor with a bit of a mixed track record, with two hits and three misses. How will PRISM hold up in Dagian Drupe's filmography? Only one way to find out!

Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors episode 6

Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors is a 2007-2009 magical girl fanime series created by MagicMe123, who seems to be German. It is notable for being presumably the longest fanime of all time, and among the oldest fanime to reach a proper conclusion, clocking in at 9½ hours long across 52 episodes and a "7-part movie", according to Fanime Realm. The episodes are normally around 10 minutes each.

I think Magic Heart is further notable for its rigid and geometric art style, with the same few poses being copy-pasted over and over again to simplify the animation process. Also, all the voice acting is done through Microsoft Sam text to speech.

Plot description from Fanime Realm:

With the evil forces of the Dark Empire threatening to take over the world, a young girl must take on the role of Magic Heart, fight alongside her Magical Warrior companions, and save the world!

I'll keep showing Magic Heart as long as people are interested in it.

Short films from La 7-a Usona Bona Film-Festivalo

La Usona Bona Film-Festivalo is a film festival for Seppolandic short films in the Esperanto language. The seventh and most recent UBFF was at the end of last year. The film festival is organized by esperanto-usa.org, who publish the short films on their YouTube channel. Many of these short films have English subtitles, and it's a few of these that I'll be showing tonight, namely:

• "La Paseo" ("The Past*") — 1 minute
• "TRAKTATO" ("TREATY") — 3 minutes
• "Nur Objekto" ("A Mere Object") — 4 minutes

*"The past" is more often called estinteco or pasinteco in Esperanto. PReVo describes paseo as a rare term ("malofte"). It's a rare enough term that it's not on Wiktionary, at least.

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Captions:

• English softsubs for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing under English-language dialog; English hardsubs under Scottish Gaelic dialog (An t-Eilean)
• Not available (fanime)
• English and Esperanto softsubs, dialog only (La Paseo, TRAKTATO)
• English, Esperanto and Spanish softsubs, dialog only (Nur Objekto)

Language of audio:

• Scottish Gaelic and English (An t-Eilean)
• English (fanime)
• Esperanto (Esperanto short films)

Content warnings:

• Gunshot murder
• Copaganda
• Harry Potter references
• Child nudity
• Children fighting or in peril

For the latter two warnings, keep in mind that it's fanime, so there's a limit to how bad things can get.

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[epic sax solo]
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Due to popular demand, the visual cuisine for tonight are some episodes from Superman & Batman the animated series before more Archer episodes. Tonight we will end season 3 of Archer.

Superbat is a combination of Superman tas and Batman tas, we will try watching them at the same time in the correct order.

Archer follows secret agent Archer Sterling and his dysfunctional coworkers who work at a fictional american intelligence agency.

8 pm est

content warnings

Batman Tas

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103359/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/600464?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Batman is a billionaire who dons a suit and beats people up at night
• Mild nudity
• Kissing
• A character is kissed without their consent
• Sexual innuendos
• Cartoon violence
• Guns & gun violence
• Light blood
• "Non-lethal" violence that in reality would be lethal
• Drugs & alcohol
• Harley is in an abusive relationship with Joker
• Death
• Characters in distress
• Some episodes are sad
• Gaslighting
• A mentally ill person is violent
• Mental institution scenes
• Characters are drugged
• Characters suffer from PTSD
• Characters are restrained
• Death of a parent
• Stalking
• Clowns
• Kidnapping
• Mental illness
• Unconsciousness
• Natural bodies of water
• Alligators and crocodiles
• Abusive parents
• Characters are arrested and sent to prison

Archer

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14406?index1=-1&index2=-1

• A dog does die
• Violence
• Guns & gun violence
• Profanity & slurs
• Sexual content
• A disabled character is played by an able-bodied perosn
• Pedophilia
• A minor is sexualized
• Transphobic slurs
• Homophobia & "man in a dress" jokes
• A character is misgendered
• Abortion
• Ableism & ableist slurs
• Death of an LGBT character
• Hate speech
• Misrepresentation of a minority
• A character is terminally ill
• Razors, cutting, stabbing, & shaving
• An animal is abandoned
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents, child abuse, and child abandonment
• Abused forgives their abuser
• Gaslighting
• Stalking
• Drugs, alcohol, & overdose
• Addiction
• Animal abuse and neglect; death of a pet
• Snakes & spiders
• Frequent mentions and jokes about sexual assault/harassment; jokes about sexual assault on men
• Characters are drugged & restrained
• A woman gets slapped
• Eye mutilation
• Excessive gore
• Mentions of genital trauma/mutilation in one episode
• Head gets squashed
• Teeth are damaged
• A character is burned alive
• Cannibalism
• Amputation
• Asphyxiation & drowning
• Hanging
• Bone breaking
• Torture
• Kidnapping
• Death of a major character
• Cheating
• Vomit, spitting, & farting
• A character wet/soils themselves
• Incarceration
• Needles & syringes
• Hospital scenes
• A character attempts suicide
• A character that may be autistic is abused
• A character has an eating disorder and is the butt of fat jokes
• A mentally ill person is violent
• PTSD
• Body dysmorphia
• Anxiety attacks
• Suicide and jokes about suicide
• Flashing lights & images
• Loud noises
• Antisemitism
• Large age gap in a relationship
• Religion is mentioned
• bestiality
• Incest
• Characters are sexually objectified
• Men are ridiculed for crying

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Today Hairy Harmonies looks at films where the main guys -- the lead protagonists -- appreciate art so they... kinda fake it. Each film also displays the particular subculture of the would-be artists with a mix of humor and authenticity.

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A Bucket Of Blood (1959)

1h 5min 31sec, English with optional English subtitles
Director: Roger Corman

A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.

side note: if you don't know Roger Corman, there will be a pre-show documentary about his film making.

Song Sung Blue (2025)

2h 11min 48sec, English with hardcoded English subtitles
Director: Craig Brewer

~~Wolverine and his girl~~ Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson start a Neil Diamond tribute act and experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together.

Content Warnings:

A Bucket of Blood U.S. rated TV-PG
Sex & Nudity: None
Violence & Gore: Mild
Profanity: None
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes: Mild
from https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8500

35 warnings that won't spoil the film -- note this got a TV-PG because it is more silly than horrific

animal dies
dead animal
pet dies
cat dies
sad animal
someone leave without saying goodbye
woman brutalized for spectacle
drugs
drug use
addiction?
someone restrained
someone's mouth covered?
decapitation
hanging
shaving/cutting
stabbing
choking
asphyxiation
someone struggles to breathe
someone becomes unconscious
someone dies
major character dies
audio gore?
copaganda?
someone attempts suicide
suicide
reality unstable or unhinged?
someone has a mental illness
mentally ill person violent
someone has a meltdown
screaming
someone watched without knowing
someone sexually objectified
sad ending?
blood/gore

Song Sung Blue Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some strong language, some sexual material and brief drug use.
Sex & Nudity: Mild
Violence & Gore: Mild
Profanity: Moderate
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes: Mild
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1322504

45 warnings that won't spoil the film (more realistic, but not a horror film)

alcohol abuse
addiction (alcohol)
someone uses drugs
razors
shaving/cutting
car crash
someone hit by a car
blood/gore
finger/toe mutilation
Achilles Tendon injury
broken bones
amputation (act of surgery not shown)
someone disabled played by able-bodied
someone struggles to breathe
someone becomes unconscious
heart attacks
someone dies
family member dies
parent dies
major character dies
shower scene
mental institution scene
hospital scene
PTSD
someone has a mental illness
someone has a meltdown
anxiety attacks
someone says "I'll kill myself"
reality unstable or unhinged
body dysmorphia
body dysphoria
dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
audio gore
sudden loud noises
car honk / tires screech
baby cry
screaming
obscene language/gestures
sexual content (mild)
someone sexually objectified
childbirth
babies or unborn children
spit
shakey cam
flashing lights or images

letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/roger-corman-the-pope-of-pop-cinema/
https://letterboxd.com/film/a-bucket-of-blood/
https://letterboxd.com/film/song-sung-blue-2025/

movie links:

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• 3pm EDT/19:00 UTC: preshow - intro: https://tankie.tube/w/pTf3K3ZtsDJf64JNXfwrR9
• preshow - Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema: https://tankie.tube/w/sL5NiThiY1J5Luf3uGvwbe
• Bucket of Blood intro: https://tankie.tube/w/mh3jMxCEhNaFGqSiSXRsCK
• 4pm EDT/20:00 UTC: Bucket of Blood - https://tankie.tube/w/h5rchow37MHbRXLaZ7yDpU
• break videos
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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition (2012/2022), the second animated adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s 1989 manga of the same name. It was first released as a trilogy of movies in 2012/13, and then slightly expanded and aired as a TV series in 2022; the latter version is what we will watch. A muscle-bound, sword-wielding he-man named Guts joins a rag-tag band of mercenaries and roams a lawless fantasy land filled with bad guys and monsters, stabbing things and lobbing off heads every step of the way. It is pretty much Conan the Barbarian meets Fist of the North Star. This version covers most of the same ground, but in fewer episodes, as the 1997 series; however, it resolves the cliffhanger on which the first series ends. It is not as highly-regarded as the 1997 series, but is still generally considered good. Episodes 7 through 13 tonight, finishing off the series.

After that is The Hobbit (1977), the animated TV-film adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s 1937 novel. Bilbo goes on an adventure across Middle-earth to the Lonely Mountain with a crew of dwarves and his wizard Gandalf to claim a vast treasure hoard from the evil dragon Smaug. All sorts of antics happen on the way there. It was animated in Japan by a bunch of future Ghibli alumni. Looks pretty neat, and, according to some people, it is better than the Peter Jackson trilogy. We’ll decide for ourselves.

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Letterboxd:

• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition: https://letterboxd.com/film/berserk-the-golden-age-arc-memorial-edition/
• The Hobbit: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-hobbit/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Berserk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9832
• The Hobbit: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16090

CWs for Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition:

• Death of dog.
• Animal abandonment.
• Smoke.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abuse.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Stalking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of horse.
• Sad animal.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Sexual assault.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Finger mutilation.
• Squashed head.
• Tooth damage.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Decapitation.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Amputation.
• Asphyxiation.
• Achilles tendon injury.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Choking.
• Dislocations.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Death by falling.
• Genital trauma.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Unconsciousness.
• Stabbing.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Trypophobia.
• Possession.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Prison scene.
• Menstruation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Dissociation.
• Body dysphoria.
• Meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Flashing lights.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Jump scares.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Miscarriage.
• Death of pregnant person.
• Childbirth.
• Abortions.
• Babies.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Hate speech.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Hell.
• Bestiality.
• Incest.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• BDSM.
• Loss of virginity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Gun violence.
• Drowning.
• Carnism.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Hobbit:

• Deaths of dogs.
• Animal corpses.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Racism.
• Death of dragon.
• Stabbing.

Links to movies:

• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 7: https://tankie.tube/w/iNp92YzTRzXGqkU6pA6xuk
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 8: https://tankie.tube/w/hQTUumQvEvU7wqrd775Una
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 9: https://tankie.tube/w/g2nGbj1EDo5QugxuuHqEXM
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 10: https://tankie.tube/w/1Sg8sAGoTPmfshWS2MjM4x
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 11: https://tankie.tube/w/1ATd3vH4SYjEXxBxo1voFx
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 12: https://tankie.tube/w/6kj6GQsVRniPLHWgWoQjj8
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 13: https://tankie.tube/w/kDTpkPdT2vsdStVZhysvnu
• The Hobbit: https://tankie.tube/w/uhjh8KfszGZGi93XFNyq6C

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The rest of this post may contain spoilers.

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Turnabout Storm, part 4

The fourth part of NeoArtimus' fan-made crossover miniseries in which Capcom's "ace attorney" himself, Phoenix Wright, ends up in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and has to do some lawyering for Rainbow Dash, who's been accused of bloody murder. Dun-dun-dun! This series has a legendary status in (and even outside of!) the brony fandom due to the sheer effort and length of it. It also has a sequel called Elements of Justice, which we won't be watching any time soon, but hey, it exists.

No subtitles on this one since the whole thing is done in a visual novel style with text boxes for the dialog to begin with.

The fifth and final part has been split in two halves, and we'll be watching them over the course of the next two weeks.

Runtime: 79 minutes.

The Owl House

After an extended break due to DST desynchronization, we finally return to our beloved Owl House for its season 1 finale. Plot description from IMDb:

Accidentally sent to the world of the Boiling Isles before a trip to summer camp, a teenage human named Luz longs to become a witch and is aided by rebellious Eda and pint-sized demon King.

Content warnings

Content warnings for Turnabout Storm include:

• Murder/death of a pony

And for what it's worth, this is a courtroom drama, which means that its portrayal of the criminal justice system is going to be inaccurate if not apologetic or favorable.

Content warnings for The Owl House include:

• Implied child abuse and domestic violence
• Stand-in for alcohol
• Animal abuse, death of a pet
• Stalking
• Bugs, bees, spiders, and snakes
• Characters are drugged
• Potential sexual harassment
• A character's mouth is covered
• Body horror, bodily transformation
• Children in peril
• Et cetera

You may wish to read a more comprehensive list of content warnings here:

• https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/79293
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8050756/parentalguide/

Land acknowledgement

The Owl House was made on Tongva land

The Owl House was animated at Disney Television Animation's studio in Tovaangar, the unceded homeland of the Uto-Aztecan-speaking Tongva people. More specifically, the animation studio in question is located in Glendale, Los Angeles County, near the historical Tongva villages of Wiqanga, Tujunga, Hahamongna, Ashwaangna, and Maungna, between the Verdugo and Santa Monica mountains whose springs had long provided fresh water for the Tongva.

The streets of Los Angeles were built by the slave labor of Tongva people arrested by settler police for "vagrancy and public drunkenness" after Seppoland annexed Tovaangar without treaty. The Tongva people today are still unrecognized by the governments of California and Seppoland, while the California Natives who did sign treaties with Seppoland never had those treaties ratified. This lack of Indigenous treaties in California presents unique legal challenges for the state's Natives compared to Natives elsewhere in Seppoland.

The economic prosperity of Los Angeles that allowed an animation industry to develop in the city necessarily has its basis in the continuous and systemic disposession of Tongva people from their land. The Tongva had no say in approving the construction of Disney's animation studio and sees none of the profit generated by the cartoons drawn on their land. And although piracy avoids putting money directly into the pockets of settler capitalists, unpaid fan labor such as pirate uploading still contributes to the overall values of the intellectual properties in question, just as any other labor adds to the value of any other commodity.

Tongva people still exist and still live in Tovaangar today. The Tongva still fight, as they have for centuries, to exercise their sovereignty over their homeland and resources. The Tongva are not a monolith nor in any way static: they are stratified by class like any other nation under capitalism; they adapt new technologies to their needs like any other nation; and also like any other nation, they have individual members intersected by every axis of oppression and each with their own individual perspectives.

Here's a relevant charity:

• https://www.tongva.land/

I would also recommend listening to "An Indigenous Perspective On The Chicano Movement", as it is very relevant to the topic of Mexican colonization of the Southwest and its lingering impact on the settler-colonial contradiction in e.g. Tovaangar today.

SOLIDARITY WINS THE FREEDOM OF NATIONS!

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♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

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The visual cuisine for tonight is Yeyín and the Android Hunter, Magic Knight Rayearth, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated.

6 pm est

Due to overwhelming demand we are watching Blue Submarine 6. Blue Submarine 6 follows a fleet of submarines on their mission to stop a scientist and his ocean-dwelling creations that want to destroy humanity.

8 pm est

Due to popular demand we will be starting God Nights: Courage the Cowardly Dog follows a cowardly dog named Courage defending his family from many bizarre dangers.

Scooby Doo MI revisits the early days of the gang and sees them in Crystal Cove, a small town full of paranormal sightings and other mysteries. It references previous iterations of Scooby Doo and has an overarching story arc.

content warnings:

Blue submarine 6

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278926/parentalguide/

• Depiction of SA
• Sexual content
• Nudity
• Violence, blood & gore
• Explosions
• Death
• Takes place underwater
• Implied drowning
• Mild profanity
• Syringe/needle
• Smoking
• Depictions of distress

Courage:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17834?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Cartoon violence
• Cartoon animal abuse: Eustace constantly abuses Courage in cartoonish ways
• Animal abuse
• Animals die
• References to pedophilia/child molestation however the character does not directly engage in that behavior
• An animal is abandoned
• Child abandoned by parent
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents
• Spiders & bugs
• Alligators/crocodiles
• Characters are restrained
• Eye mutilation
• Body horror
• Teeth are damaged
• Shaving/cutting
• A character frequently strangles another
• Unconsciousness
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Ghosts
• Vomit & spit
• Anxiety attacks
• Fourth wall breaking
• Sad endings
• Car crashes
• A character is hit by a car
• Blood/gore: sometimes Courage screams and his internal organs come out in a cartoonish manner

Scooby Doo

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/612315?index1=-1&index2=-1

• A dog dies
• Death
• Animals die
• An animal is abandoned
• Stalking
• Animal abuse
• Death of a pet
• Spiders, bugs & snakes
• Sad animals
• Alligators/crocodiles
• Sharks
• Characters are drugged
• Characters are restrained
• Eye mutilation
• Torture
• Teeth are damaged
• Characters are burned alive
• Characters are crushed to death
• Bone-breaking
• Death of a major character
• Characters sacrifice themselves
• Death of a parent
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Possession
• Clowns
• Ghosts
• Natural bodies of water
• Spitting
• Incarceration
• Hospital & mental institution scenes
• Misgendering: Velma is mistaken for a boy on a few occasions
• Death of a LGBT character
• A black character dies first: One of the few deaths in the series is a black character
• Car crash
• Drowning
• Guns & gun violence

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition (2012/2022), the second animated adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s 1989 manga of the same name. It was first released as a trilogy of movies in 2012/13, and then slightly expanded and aired as a TV series in 2022; the latter version is what we will watch. A muscle-bound, sword-wielding he-man named Guts joins a rag-tag band of mercenaries and roams a lawless fantasy land filled with bad guys and monsters, stabbing things and lobbing off heads every step of the way. It is pretty much Conan the Barbarian meets Fist of the North Star. This version covers most of the same ground, but in fewer episodes, as the 1997 series; however, it resolves the cliffhanger on which the first series ends. It is not as highly-regarded as the 1997 series, but is still generally considered good. Episodes 1 through 6 tonight.

After that is Josep (2022), a French animated feature about the Spanish Civil War, following the plight of Catalan artist Josep Bartoli, a Republican refugee held in a concentration camp in France following his flight from Franco’s fascist rule. He endures brutal conditions there, but forms a friendship of sorts with one of the French guards, who reminisces on the saga many years later as he lays dying. Excellent reviews for this, so let’s give it a shot. This is the only feature-film credit to date of French artist/director Aurel.

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

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition: https://letterboxd.com/film/berserk-the-golden-age-arc-memorial-edition/
• Josep: https://letterboxd.com/film/josep/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Berserk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9832
• Josep: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/585396

CWs for Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition:

• Death of dog.
• Animal abandonment.
• Smoke.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abuse.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Stalking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of horse.
• Sad animal.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Sexual assault.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Finger mutilation.
• Squashed head.
• Tooth damage.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Decapitation.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Amputation.
• Asphyxiation.
• Achilles tendon injury.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Choking.
• Dislocations.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Death by falling.
• Genital trauma.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Unconsciousness.
• Stabbing.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Trypophobia.
• Possession.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Prison scene.
• Menstruation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Dissociation.
• Body dysphoria.
• Meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Flashing lights.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Jump scares.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Miscarriage.
• Death of pregnant person.
• Childbirth.
• Abortions.
• Babies.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Hate speech.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Hell.
• Bestiality.
• Incest.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• BDSM.
• Loss of virginity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Gun violence.
• Drowning.
• Carnism.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Josep:

• Death of dog.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of pet.
• Implied sexual assault.
• Prostitution.
• Nudity.
• Smoking.
• Fascism.
• Prison scenes.

Links to movies:

• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 1: https://tankie.tube/w/mm1rGJszqVAqSw1ZHS3fjv
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 2: https://tankie.tube/w/k8Y9QuRTK2PCE54PiMurEi
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 3: https://tankie.tube/w/dFLWcQkZ2ad33xtLqko5Uw
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 4: https://tankie.tube/w/co7wKVwLABYSuAmwjVei9X
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 5: https://tankie.tube/w/hsBS2VURz8MTLdcLTM8XjW
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc: Memorial Edition ep. 6: https://tankie.tube/w/rPJQc45TtBDHuds94F2dCY
• Josep: https://tankie.tube/w/rPkUcKxTKS9PNHbXAfzAYB

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Hooray for DST resynchronization. This is our last watch party before we return to The Owl House for three weeks… and then we take another short break from The Owl House, and then we watch The Owl House every other week pretty consistently for most of the rest of the year.

The rest of this post may contain spoilers.

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Turnabout Storm, part 3 (Phoenix version)

The second half of the third part of NeoArtimus' fan-made crossover miniseries in which Capcom's "ace attorney" himself, Phoenix Wright, ends up in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and has to do some lawyering for Rainbow Dash, who's been accused of bloody murder. Dun-dun-dun! This series has a legendary status in (and even outside of!) the brony fandom due to the sheer effort and length of it. It also has a sequel called Elements of Justice, which we won't be watching any time soon, but hey, it exists.

No subtitles on this one since the whole thing is done in a visual novel style with text boxes for the dialog to begin with.

We watched the "Twilight version" of this part last week. As I understand it, "Phoenix version" is quite simply the events of that part from Phoenix Wright's perspective. Apparently "Phoenix version" released before "Twilight version" but "Twilight version" came first in the official playlist, so.

Runtime: 102 minutes.

Content warnings

• Murder/death of a pony

And for what it's worth, this is a courtroom drama, which means that its portrayal of the criminal justice system is going to be inaccurate if not apologetic or favorable.

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, first up is War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965), the first installment of the four-part, seven-hour Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic 1867 novel of the same name. Bezukhov, the bastard son of a nobleman, enters Russian high society in 1805, just as the Napoleonic Wars are in full swing; he befriends the eponymous Bolkonsky, who enlists in the Russian Army during the War of the Third Coalition against France. A whole lot of epic-scale warfare ensues. This is considered the magnum opus of director Sergey Bondarchuk, who is otherwise best-known for the similarly-themed Waterloo (1970). The four parts as a whole are considered one of the greatest films of all time, so let’s watch.

After that is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026), the sequel to the animated consumerist orgy The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), which we previously watched. Bowser’s wily son Bowser Jr. busts him out of prison and the two go on to terrorize the galaxy; Mario and co. enlist the help of Yoshi, Rosalina, and, uhh, Fox McCloud from the Star Fox games to save the day. A whole lot of product placement for Nintendo’s games follows from there. Directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelencic return from the first film. A camrip has just appeared, so that is what we will watch. Quality looks decent enough, though it contains a couple of ads. This movie is already a feature-length commercial anyway. It is sure to be one of the biggest box-office hits of the year.

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

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky: https://letterboxd.com/film/war-and-peace-part-i-andrei-bolkonsky/
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063794/parentalguide/
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1140467

CWs for War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky:

• Kissing.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Death in childbirth.
• Nudity.
• Gun violence.
• Explosions.
• War crimes.
• Blood.
• Alcohol.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie:

• Death by crushing.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Decapitation.
• Death by falling.
• Kidnapping.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Prison scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Crying baby.
• Screaming.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Babies.
• Plane crash.
• Gun violence.
• Explosions.

Links to movies:

• War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky: https://tankie.tube/w/k545MWa1gobnzyoraEJEBU
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: https://tankie.tube/w/sbBkbnZwNFQfSMTBkKctXF

Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movies April Fools x Easter Edition: Cud Converts to Christianity! Neo-Noir Max Payne (2008) (1h42) & Assassin 33AD (1h49m) starting at 4:20 US EDT

In honor of April Fool’s and Easter, we will be watching future Catholic saint Mark Wahlberg (famous for Mark Wahlberg’s 40 day challenge aka Lent) in the Neo-noir Max Payne (2008) (Unrated and bloodier cut) adaptation of the 2004 videogame, followed by Evangelical Christian thriller (really, an unintentional comedy) Black Easter: Assassin 33 A.D (2020) (Directors Cut).

(I would like to note that I ran these movies by Tith and she was horrified, but encouraged me to follow my hearts).

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Max Payne (2008) (Unrated)

An adaptation of Remedy Entertainment’s video game series of the same name, this film was visually striking to my childish gaze when I was but a young cuttlefish.  Let’s see if it holds up.  “Max Payne is a detective assigned to the NYPD Cold Case Unit. He lost his wife Michelle and infant daughter Rose in a horrific murder; since that day, Max has been consumed by the desire to find his family's killer.”  The plot proceeds along pretty standard noir story beats.

The movie made a tidy profit and was ranked #1 at box opening due to in my opinion deceptive advertising.  It had a star-studded cast including (in order from least to most cancelled): Ludacris and Nelly Furtado, Mark Wahlberg, and Mila Kunis, but not even their combined star power could save it from the haters at Rotten Tomatoes who gave it a 16% rating.

How does this relate to tonight’s theme?  Great question!  See the attached image of Mark Wahlberg talking about Lent in an interview.

Content Warnings for Max Payne (2008) (Unrated) (1h42m)

Violence and gore: severe

• There’s a lot of killing and shooting
• The unrated version adds more blood (somehow they got it down to PG-13 for the theatrical release by scrubbing out the blood!)

Sexual violence: None

Other:

• Drug use is a prominent theme
• Dehumanization of people who use drugs
• Copaganda
• Sad ending
• Fragile reality, hallucination

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/31030

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/11221

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/3gKPNpMvC5mZXS9zTezUjz

Assassin 33 A.D (2020) (1h49m)

The plot: A crew of racially diverse (tokenized) must go back in time to stop a small group of Islamic extremists who are hell-bent on destroying The West by preventing Christianity from ever existing by assassinating Jesus Christ before he can be publicly tortured to death and resurrected. Jesus may save, but who will save Jesus?

Commentary:

Incredibly bad Christian Evangelical Time Travel movie that is also surprisingly clever/fun with its time travel.  It’s incredibly racist, Islam-hating, Judenhassianly-antisemitic, ableist, and they also somehow try to be woke about every single one of those which makes it even worse.  It’s so bad that they could not find a single middle-easterner to play in it (unless you count the Greek guy and the iϟϟntreali woman (I will count him but not her, in both cases to piss off the euros)).  

This movie is horrible, but it is also amazing.  Watch at your own peril. It's made by white AmeriKKKan evangelical christians for white AmeriKKKan evangelical christians.  As such, lethal levels of racism, tokenization, other bigotry, and kkkringe lie inside. LETHAL.  This movie is not a movie of honor.  Nothing valued is here.  This movie is best shunned.  What is in this movie is frightening and repulsive.  Those who made it made holy stigmata in the palms of their hands, those who watch it are cursed to bear those stigmata as well, and to bleed out or die of infection from their wounds.  THIS MOVIE HAS STAINED THE SOUL OF ALL WHO WATCHED IT. YOU WHO COME AFTER US, TAKE WARNING.

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(It’s not that bad, I just have standards and like being melodramatic sometimes.  It’s not supposed to be funny but it really is.)

Content Warnings for Black Easter: Assassin 33 A.D (2020) (Directors Cut)

Violence and gore: mild

• People die brutally in a sudden car crash out of nowhere at the beginning of the film.  This is probably the scene that is the single most likely to severely someone’s PTSD.
• The survivor of the car crash is left severely injured, disabled, grief-stricken, and comes close to killing himself. If either of those seem too heavy you can basically just show up 10-11 minutes late and those scenes will be over

Sexual violence: None

Other: Severe.  Cartoonish, but it’s chauvinist as fuck

• Racial tokenization
• War on Terror caricatures of Islam
• Judenhassian Antisemitism
• Brown-face

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/122566

UnconsentingMedia: No Entry

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8064418/parentalguide/

YouTube link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUkeQM_QsCA

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17-26 (technically 17-21; 22-26 later)

Six studios and seven directors adapt the early works of Tatsuki Fujimoto, the mastermind behind “Chainsaw Man,” into an anime anthology. Each episode is an anime adaptation of a short story he drew from ages seventeen to twenty-six, including the first manga he ever submitted for competition. Watch as vivid tales of young love, chaos, madness, and the bonds between people unfold in each episode.

We’re watching:

1. Niwa ni wa Niwa Niwatori ga Ita. (A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard)

2. Sasaki-kun ga Juudan Tometa (Sasaki Stopped a Bullet)

3. Koi wa Moumoku (Love Is Blind)

4. Shikaku

I wonder what Tatsuki Fujimoto was before Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man

Pulgasari

In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.

This is technically a North Korean remake, with Japan and China's help (South Korea if you include the possibly kidnapped director Shin Sang-Ok) This is not our first DPRK film here, is it?

Letterboxd:

17-26

https://letterboxd.com/film/tatsuki-fujimoto-17-26/ https://myanimelist.net/anime/62405/Fujimoto_Tatsuki_17-26?q=Tatsuki&cat=anime

Pulgasari

https://letterboxd.com/film/pulgasari/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

Pulgasari https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/971586

Unconsenting Media links:

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/ https://www.imdb.com/

Tatsuki Fujimoto’s 17-26

Sex Et Nudity: Moderate

A nude woman's breasts and pubic hair are visible while modeling.

Violence Et Gore: Severe

Note by me: Some child kills a pet, was it bird, fuck…. maybe that was in a later episode not e5-8

Profanity: Moderate

Substance Abuse: None

Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

Note by me: Didn’t a soft-hearted boy literally turn into a girl, through some series of events and get harassed over it in one of these episodes?

I also heard someone hanged a high schooler gal's nude portrait, wait wtf (don’t worry that’s for ep5-8)

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Pulgasari

Sex Et Nudity: None

Violence Et Gore: Mild Blood is shown when monster is unleashed on the people’s enemies

Profanity: Mild

Substance Abuse: None

Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Mild (no, being made in DPRK is not frightening lmao)

Source

17-16 EP1-4:

E1: https://tankie.tube/w/wPeWSE38fPAixKmoSR4AYq

E2: https://tankie.tube/w/1SianL5kSagKtR24vxoE47

E3: https://tankie.tube/w/rfUJcoUV14ioZZpc96yfiU

E4: https://tankie.tube/w/oWFzMbrqfzWwNuMTdwTrdy

Pulgasari:

https://tankie.tube/w/2LRHH1tkVCpn6vSqAa8CRA

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Berserk (1997), the first animated adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s 1989 manga of the same name. A muscle-bound, sword-wielding he-man named Guts joins a rag-tag band of mercenaries and roams a lawless fantasy land filled with bad guys and monsters, stabbing things and lobbing off heads every step of the way. It is pretty much Conan the Barbarian meets Fist of the North Star. This is widely considered one of the best anime of all time, so let’s check it out. Episodes 19 through 25 tonight, finishing off the series.

After that is Vuk (1981), AKA The Little Fox, a Hungarian animated feature about a brave little fox who wanders into the woods one day, only to return to his hovel and discover that his whole family has disappeared. Humanity has arrived in the forest, and they are taking no prisoners. His uncle begins to teach him the ways of the wilderness, and he learns to become cleverer than the hunters. Think of it as the Eastern Bloc counterpart to The Fox and the Hound (1981). Great reviews for this all around, so let’s give it a shot. Director Attila Dargay is otherwise best-known for The Treasure of Swamp Castle (1985), which we have not yet watched.

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Letterboxd:

• Berserk: https://letterboxd.com/film/berserk-1997/
• Vuk: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-little-fox/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Berserk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9832
• Vuk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/18453

CWs for Berserk:

• Death of dog.
• Animal abandonment.
• Smoke.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abuse.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Stalking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of horse.
• Sad animal.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Sexual assault in the final episode. Implied and threatened sexual assaults in other episodes, but not shown.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Finger mutilation.
• Squashed head.
• Tooth damage.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Decapitation.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Amputation.
• Asphyxiation.
• Achilles tendon injury.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Choking.
• Dislocations.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Death by falling.
• Genital trauma.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Unconsciousness.
• Stabbing.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Trypophobia.
• Possession.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Prison scene.
• Menstruation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Dissociation.
• Body dysphoria.
• Meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Flashing lights.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Jump scares.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Miscarriage.
• Death of pregnant person.
• Childbirth.
• Abortions.
• Babies.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Hate speech.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Hell.
• Bestiality.
• Incest.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• BDSM.
• Loss of virginity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Gun violence.
• Drowning.
• Carnism.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Vuk:

• Deaths of animals.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Sad animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Carnism.
• Death of rabbit.
• Gun violence.
• Death of parent.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Babies.
• Kidnapping.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Prison scene.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Homelessness.
• Decapitation.
• Suicide.

Links to movies:

• Berserk ep. 19: https://tankie.tube/w/uK8JVG1zGUWsuCoe2cVFot
• Berserk ep. 20: https://tankie.tube/w/1mEcGM5GaWxWtAqsFdSREx
• Berserk ep. 21: https://tankie.tube/w/2YvyMFNqUpeRnbZJVZ2dwY
• Berserk ep. 22: https://tankie.tube/w/cctYxtTAqZrmZdXL3HiANU
• Berserk ep. 23: https://tankie.tube/w/8V5xnbGiuc3w1rT1TgeyQu
• Berserk ep. 24: https://tankie.tube/w/rgmBLzqcH3DaH9VnPp4K5x
• Berserk ep. 25: https://tankie.tube/w/eqvtYidv6WuJxd7w9rjLbD
• Vuk: https://tankie.tube/w/w3JUs34TayBPN7zVcthsyK

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※Use a VPN and make sure you have a Hexbear account. Let's thank Aer for uploading Turnabout Storm for us.

Users in Turtle Island are advised that the watch party will be starting an hour later than usual. Thankfully, this is our last watch party before Europe switches to DST and things return to normal.

The rest of this post may contain spoilers.

What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Turnabout Storm, part 3 (Twilight version)

The first half of the third part of NeoArtimus' fan-made crossover miniseries in which Capcom's "ace attorney" himself, Phoenix Wright, ends up in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and has to do some lawyering for Rainbow Dash, who's been accused of bloody murder. Dun-dun-dun! This series has a legendary status in (and even outside of!) the brony fandom due to the sheer effort and length of it. It also has a sequel called Elements of Justice, which we won't be watching any time soon, but hey, it exists.

No subtitles on this one since the whole thing is done in a visual novel style with text boxes for the dialog to begin with.

Part 3 of Turnabout Storm has two halves, referred to as "Twilight version" and "Phoenix version". We will watch the "Phoenix version" of part 3 next week.

Runtime: 96 minutes

Content warnings

• Murder/death of a pony

And for what it's worth, this is a courtroom drama, which means that its portrayal of the criminal justice system is going to be inaccurate if not apologetic or favorable.

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♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫

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The visual cuisine for tonight are four more episodes of Batman the animated series and four more episodes of the TV show Archer due to popular demand.

Batman Tas follows Batman fighting criminals and supervillains in Gotham City, the Harley Quinn anime is said to have taken a lot of inspiration from this.

Archer follows secret agent Archer Sterling and his dysfunctional coworkers who work at a fictional american intelligence agency.

8 pm est

content warnings

Batman Tas

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103359/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/600464?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Batman is a billionaire who dons a suit and beats people up at night
• Mild nudity
• Kissing
• A character is kissed without their consent
• Sexual innuendos
• Cartoon violence
• Guns & gun violence
• Light blood
• "Non-lethal" violence that in reality would be lethal
• Drugs & alcohol
• Harley is in an abusive relationship with Joker
• Death
• Characters in distress
• Some episodes are sad
• Gaslighting
• A mentally ill person is violent
• Mental institution scenes
• Characters are drugged
• Characters suffer from PTSD
• Characters are restrained
• Death of a parent
• Stalking
• Clowns
• Kidnapping
• Mental illness
• Unconsciousness
• Natural bodies of water
• Alligators and crocodiles
• Abusive parents
• Characters are arrested and sent to prison

Archer

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14406?index1=-1&index2=-1

• A dog does die
• Violence
• Guns & gun violence
• Profanity & slurs
• Sexual content
• A disabled character is played by an able-bodied perosn
• Pedophilia
• A minor is sexualized
• Transphobic slurs
• Homophobia & "man in a dress" jokes
• A character is misgendered
• Abortion
• Ableism & ableist slurs
• Death of an LGBT character
• Hate speech
• Misrepresentation of a minority
• A character is terminally ill
• Razors, cutting, stabbing, & shaving
• An animal is abandoned
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents, child abuse, and child abandonment
• Abused forgives their abuser
• Gaslighting
• Stalking
• Drugs, alcohol, & overdose
• Addiction
• Animal abuse and neglect; death of a pet
• Snakes & spiders
• Frequent mentions and jokes about sexual assault/harassment; jokes about sexual assault on men
• Characters are drugged & restrained
• A woman gets slapped
• Eye mutilation
• Excessive gore
• Mentions of genital trauma/mutilation in one episode
• Head gets squashed
• Teeth are damaged
• A character is burned alive
• Cannibalism
• Amputation
• Asphyxiation & drowning
• Hanging
• Bone breaking
• Torture
• Kidnapping
• Death of a major character
• Cheating
• Vomit, spitting, & farting
• A character wet/soils themselves
• Incarceration
• Needles & syringes
• Hospital scenes
• A character attempts suicide
• A character that may be autistic is abused
• A character has an eating disorder and is the butt of fat jokes
• A mentally ill person is violent
• PTSD
• Body dysmorphia
• Anxiety attacks
• Suicide and jokes about suicide
• Flashing lights & images
• Loud noises
• Antisemitism
• Large age gap in a relationship
• Religion is mentioned
• bestiality
• Incest
• Characters are sexually objectified
• Men are ridiculed for crying

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This week Hairy Harmonies is looking at two B&W Turkish films with somewhat existentialist themes.

Thou Gild'st the Even (2013) Sen Aydinlatirsin Geceyi

1h 43m, Turkish with hard coded English subtitles
written/directed by Onur Ünlü

This is VERY much 'Arthouse Cinema' with many surreal bits. Since I can't find a hi-def version, we have to settle for a DVD rip. Pay serious attention to its content warnings, with the worst of it being protracted and disturbing domestic abuse.

Synopsis: Cemal is an assistant referee in football matches, Yasemin raises poultry, Defne is a street vendor who sells books, Doctor Irfan is occupied with his patients... In this town with two suns and three full moons in the sky, Cemal -who can see through the walls- has no expectation out of life and looks for a way out with Yasemin -who can move objects with her fingers- as he was trying to deal with the distress that fell on his. However, Defne, who can freeze time will muddle things up; Yasemin’s immortal boss’ actions will contradict the invisible elementary school teacher’s advices who is trying to eliminate the worries of Cemal.

Time to Love (1965) Sevmek Zamani

1h 31m, Turkish with hard coded English subtitles
directed by Metin Erksan, cinematography by Mengü Yegin

Synopsis/Review: Ostensibly, this is a love story between a withdrawn bachelor who falls in love with the picture of a woman while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands. When he meets the actual woman, he fears a relationship with the real-life person could never match his dreams. That's a great premise, but without more exposition portions may feel like oh so much melodrama! Perhaps the protagonists are meant to be deep and brooding, but what we hear is not deep enough to legitimize the pathos. Despite that minor complaint, the film is so beautifully shot that it is a real treat to watch.

P.S. This film has nothing to do with the more recent TV series of the same name.

Content Warnings:

Thou Gild'st the Even/Sen Aydinlatirsin Geceyi
Turkey rating: 15+ / domestic violence (severe), warnings from ME via https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/69962 under spoiler tags:

23 warnings that won't spoil the film

domestic violence (severe)
woman slapped
reality unstable or unhinged
dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
animal dies
dead animal
someone uses drugs
self-harm
someone attempts suicide
someone watched without knowing
obscene language/gestures
homophobic slurs
existentialism debated
car crash
gun violence
razors
shaving/cutting
amputation (surreal)
vomit
someone wet/soil themselves
defecation
minor sexualized
physical assault that MIGHT be interpreted to represent r*pe

0 warnings that WILL spoil the film

all known warnings are listed in the previous category

Time to Love/Sevmek Zamani
Norway Streaming rating: 15 / warnings from ME via https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1672546 under spoiler tags

5 warnings that won't spoil the film

gun violence
natural bodies of water
someone leaves without saying goodbye
someone watched without knowing
someone dies

2 warnings that WILL spoil the film

major character dies
sad ending

Note: I was the only person to rate either of these movies (I didn't bother with IMDB, which lists nothing, but did make the sole ratings thus far on 'dogdies'), so I encourage viewers to add to the ratings.

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letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/thou-gildst-the-even/
https://letterboxd.com/film/time-to-love/

movie links:

• 4:00pm EDT/20:00 UTC -- Thou Gild'st the Even: https://tankie.tube/w/r74qzWUpKrNXswFoUi48hE
• 6:00pm EDT/22:00 UTC -- Time to Love: https://tankie.tube/w/kAP3k3PtoAwif48bVLf3oE

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Episode 3 - Thunderstorm (Con giong)

MAY THIS BOMB EXPLODE OVER OUR ENEMY’S HEAD! After the dangerous offensive launched on the embassy office in Saigon, Tư Chung and his comrades have to find ways to adapt to rising suspicions from the CIA advisors, as well as dealing with violent repercussions involving someone very dear to him. The third part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.

We continue with the intensive mind games between Saigonese Rangers and the national security of the Republic of Vietnam. In this episode, Tu Chung and his company - Dong A was suspected to be involved in the activities of Biet Dong. Therefore, he and Ngoc Mai come up with a plan to approach Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Lien and his wife to evade Colonel Song. Moreover, after betraying Biet Dong Saigon for the US-ARVN coalition, Ba Can represents the “Chieu hoi” (Open Arms) campaign under the direction of CIA agent Michael and Cordel, and police Colonel Song. Ba Can has become a dangerous informant which may cause harm to the revolution.

Meanwhile, Huyen Trang is in hot water as her activities with Biet Dong Saigon draw the suspicion of “Chieu hoi” agents, especially when she enters the Dong A HQ inexplicably.

Girls rock more further in this one

Emphasis

Torture of a Biet Dong member was based ofn the testimony of the revolutionary POWs imprisoned in Con Dao prison.

Episode 4 - Give back her name (Trả lại tên cho em)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The year 1968 approaches. Bubbling underneath festive spirits are quiet anticipations of a major escalation of conflict, alongside exciting dreams of a brighter future…that seems so close and yet somehow far away. Tư Chung, tasked with overseeing the joint offensive on supreme headquarters in Saigon at the first moment of the lunar year, prepares himself for the most beautiful and painful of hopes. The final part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975. ×

In this final chapter, Biet Dong Saigon was assigned to strike important points in Saigon on Tet New Year's Eve. Tu Chung and Ngoc Mai acted as a married couple to create diversion and to secure a position for the Liberation Party of South Vietnam and the People's Army of Vietnam from the North.

Emphasis

This is the first film as well as the only one of the Vietnamese cinema to recreate the outstanding wars of the Southern Liberation Commando (or Saigon Ranger) during the 1968 Tet Offensive against the Republic of Vietnam and the United States.

It is brief though in episode 4, for what it’s worth, probably due to limited budget. Will the action compensate? Hm….

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Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/saigon-rangers-thunderstorm/

https://letterboxd.com/film/saigon-rangers-return-you-your-name/

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/ https://www.imdb.com/

Sex Et Nudity: Mild

US soldiers get handsy on women.

No eroticism, not much skin shown

Does anyone really approve of love triangle shenanigans? Because this movie has it. (I wonder if Ngoc Mai felt to Huyen Trang, what Tu Chung felt for her)

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Violence Et Gore: Moderate

Some shootings, stabbing, strangling, bombings of US and ARVN forces

Sometimes the practical effects good, sometimes bad.

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Profanity: Mild

Rare, and even then, depends on how it's translated. Maybe the f-word to make it 13+

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Substance Abuse: Moderate

Frequent smoking and drinking

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Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

Two times, here, there are torture scenes, especially with realistic distress, this time to a comrade. Torture scenes, including electrocution, beatings, being hanged upside down, threatened with going near a box with a snake, breaking bones.

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Source

EP3: https://tankie.tube/w/1H27y5p1MXejVVz9shfR5T

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Moolaade (2004), a Senegalese drama from renowned auteur Ousamane Sembene, whose films Black Girl (1966) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988) we previously watched. It centers on a group of women who cast a spell (the eponymous moolaade, or “sanctuary”, across which no one can cross) to protect the local girls from having their genitals cut, a procedure euphemistically called “purification” by its supporters. The practice is not shown, though it is discussed. Conflict escalates into violence as the pro- and anti-cutting factions radicalize. This is one of the highest-rated African films on Letterboxd, so we’ll check it out.

After that is I Swear (2025), a British biopic about John Davidson (b. 1972), a real-life Scotsman (played by Robert Aramayo here) with severe Tourette syndrome, causing him to constantly blurt out inappropriate and often-offensive comments, despite his efforts to the contrary. Much black comedy and secondhand embarrassment follow as he tries to succeed in life and get the word out about his struggles. You may know him as the guy who recently said the n-word at the BAFTA awards. Currently ranked #234 on the Letterboxd Top 500, and has received rave reviews across the board, so let’s give it a whirl. Director Kirk Jones is otherwise best-known for, uhh, Nanny McPhee (2005).

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Letterboxd:

• Moolaade: https://letterboxd.com/film/moolaade/
• I Swear: https://letterboxd.com/film/i-swear/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Moolaade: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/65965
• I Swear: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1088354

CWs for Moolaade:

• Sexual assault: a husband has sex with his wife roughly. Consent is dubious.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Child abuse.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Incest.
• Abusive parents.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Amputation.
• Gaslighting.
• Age-gap romance.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Someone wets themselves.
• Dissociation.
• Crying baby.
• Suicide.
• Screaming.
• Kidnapping.
• Death by falling.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Profanity.
• Body dysphoria.
• Babies.
• Finger mutilation.
• Discussion of religion.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Animal corpses.
• Bugs.
• Deaths of animals.
• Torture.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Childbirth.
• Genital trauma.
• Self-harm.
• Hand damage.
• Blood and gore.

CWs for I Swear:

• Shaving.
• Abused person forgives their abuser.
• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abuse.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Belting of child.
• Sad animal.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Mention of sexual assault.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Spitting.
• Prison scene.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Suicide attempt.
• Profanity.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Hate speech.
• Blood and gore.
• Ableism.

Links to movies:

• Moolaade: https://tankie.tube/w/m7AKa1fhjXL2z9MkAxzp2g
• I Swear: https://tankie.tube/w/grZt5jjSvETLsitUC732FD

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Descriptions/Content Warnings:

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt S1E5 (24 minutes), from Wikipedia:

"Raiders of the Nasal Dark": A recreational nose-picking fad spreads across Daten City thanks to a man named Oscar H. Genius, who invites the citizens of Daten City to a blimp party. However, Genius turns out to be a Ghost intent on ramming the blimp into the moon using the passengers' collective nosebleeds.

"Vomiting Point": In the gloomy town of Little Tokyo neighboring Daten City, a struggling office worker named Terao is denied his chance to attend his young daughter's birthday party and forced by his co-workers to drink a mountain of beer, causing him to create a Ghost made of vomit. Panty and Stocking defeat the Ghost and decide to help Terao with his troubles by giving him their autographs as a present for his daughter, who is an avid fan of the Anarchy sisters.

• General CW for Panty & Stocking: Lots of low-brow lewd humor, jokes about sex, jokes about overeating, jokes about poop, jokes about abortion, etc. Expect it to be edgy.

The High School Heroes (48 minutes): Fun and heartwarming tokusatsu mini-series about high school students in Japan who become super heroes. Has a great trans-coming-out subplot that seems to be handled very well.

• CW: Probably more monsters in this one, but also... MomoHero's coming out story!! It's handled with a lot of care as far as I can tell but there might be some relatively mild depictions of transphobia or gender dysphoria.

Redline (2009, 102 minutes), from Letterboxd:

A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.

TRAILER

So I'm gonna play the dub version because I read that A) it's decent, and B) you don't want to take your eyes off the screen while watching. This film has some gorgeous animation.

• CW: Epilepsy warning maybe? Moderate gore and nudity. I haven't seen it all the way through, so if there's something I'm missing, let me know.

Moon, Mars, and Pluto plushies

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, Ludwig (1973) is coming your way. It is an epic-level mostly-English-language biopic of 19th-century Bavarian king Ludwig II (1864-1886), a man who desperately wanted to live in a fairy tale, and directed his vast fortune toward his fruitless effort to do so, especially his pet project, the famed Neuschwanstein Castle. Unfortunately for him, he is mentally unstable and suffers from megalomaniacal delusions, not to mention constant insecurity over his homosexuality, his confused lust for his cousin (Princess Elisabeth of Austria), his dwindling funds, and the absorption of Bavaria into the German Empire. He descends into goblin mode as his life deteriorates. The director is renowned Italian auteur Luchino Visconti, whose Ossessione (1943) we watched on Sunday. This was the most expensive European film ever at the time, and is now regarded as one of Visconti’s best works. This one runs almost four hours by itself, so it will be the only film shown tonight. We will take an intermission during the act break.

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Letterboxd:

• Ludwig: https://letterboxd.com/film/ludwig/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Ludwig: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/86486

CWs for Ludwig:

• Domestic violence.
• Chloroform.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Tooth damage.
• Strangulation.
• Cheating.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Suicide.
• PTSD.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Babies.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Incest.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Drowning.
• Gun violence.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Ludwig: https://tankie.tube/w/kyvRHvGUgc9Eg96hCYGcTd