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The visual cuisine for tonight is Magic Knight Rayearth, the Courage & Scooby crossover special, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, Abdala: The Return of the Lords of Xalaba, and A Possible Place.

6 pm est

Magic Knight Rayearth follows Fuu, Umi, and Hikaru as they are transported to the world of Zephyr and given the mission to rescue the captured Princess Esmeralda. Tonight we will finish season 2 and watch the first part of the OVA.

8 pm est

Aliens (Alien 2) takes place decades after the Nostromo incidient from the first movie. Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a colony but encounters something.

Aliens 3 follows Ripley crash-landing on a maximum-security prison where she finds out she accidentally brought something withher.

Aliens (Alien 2)

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8629

• Violence
• Gun violence
• Nuclear explosion
• Excessive gore
• Body horror
• Characters are stabbed
• Seizure
• Character falls to their death
• Unconsciousness
• Child abandoned by parent
• Character leaves without saying goodbye
• Child abuse
• Stalking
• Bugs: characters call the aliens bugs
• Amputation
• Hands are damaged
• Character held underwater
• Character is restrained
• Character's mouth is covered
• Death of a child
• Death of a non-human character
• Death of a major character
• Characters die
• A character sacrifices themself
• Death of a parent
• A child's toy is destroyed
• Death of a family member
• Kidnapping
• Jump scares
• Trypophobic content
• Clautrophobic scene
• Vomitting
• Audio gore
• Spitting
• A head gets squashed
• Copaganda
• A character has cancer
• Hospital scene
• A character has PTSD
• Depiction of anxiety attacks
• Mental illness
• A character has a meltdown
• A character struggles to breathe
• Flashing lights & images
• Shakey cam
• Loud noises
• Screaming
• Profanity
• A character is misgendered
• Death of an LGBT character
• Hate speech
• Black face
• Misrepresentation of a minority
• Characters commit suicide
• A character says they'll kill themself
• Homelessness
• Car crash
• Plane crash
• Car honk + tires screeching

Alien 3

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12747

• An animal dies
• Stalking
• Violence
• Blood & gore
• Implied genital trauma
• Finger mutilation
• Bone-breaking
• A character is restrained
• A character slaps a woman
• A character's mouth is covered
• Death of a non-human character
• Death of a major character
• A character sacrifices themself
• Jump scares
• Claustrophobic scenes
• Vomiting
• A head gets squashed
• Decapitation
• Hospital/infirmary scenes
• Various sci-fi sounds are heard throughout the movie
• A character has anxiety attacks
• Throat mutilation
• A character struggles to breathe
• People are choked
• Flashing lights & images: there are a lot of strobe light effects
• Shakey cam
• Sudden loud noises
• Screaming
• Characters are watched without them knowing
• There is a type of childbirth scene
• An LGBT character dies
• A creature forcibly inserts itself into another character's mouth against their will
• Sad ending
• Excessive gore
• Body horror
• A character is burned alive
• Stabbing
• Seizures
• A character becomes unconscious
• Excessive gore
• Body horror
• Addiction
• Drugs & alcohol
• An animal is sad
• Bugs
• Death of a child
• Death of a non-human character
• Death of a major character
• Death of a parent
• Jump scares
• Claustrophobic scene
• Shower scene
• Spiting
• Eye mutilation
• Incarceration
• Needles/syringes
• Ableist language/behavior
• Suicide
• Sexual content
• A character is sexually objectified
• Depiction of a SA attempt but it is prevented
• Mentions of SA
• Sad ending
• Plane crash
• Blood/gore
• Gun violence
• A character's neck is cut
• Shaving/cutting

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Squid Game Season 2 (2024), a Korean Netflix series set in a dystopian world in which cash-strapped contestants agree to compete against each other in children’s games for a cash prize, only to discover that the penalty for losing is death. Who will be the last person standing to collect the loot, and what kind of twisted minds came up with this game, anyway? I guess we’ll find out. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk is otherwise best-known for the acclaimed drama Silenced (2011), which we have not yet watched, but we will. This was a huge hit when it debuted on Netflix, and Letterboxd loves it, so let’s give it a whirl. Episodes 4 through 6 of season 2 tonight.

After that is Fear and Desire (1952), a 61-minute, ultra-low-budget, abstract anti-war film made by some nobody named Stanley Kubrick, in his directorial debut. Four soldiers find themselves stranded behind enemy lines in a war between two unspecified nations with unspecified goals. They attempt to make a raft and transport to safety, but their camaraderie unravels when they capture a peasant woman and sinister impulses take hold. War is bad. Generally considered his worst film, but in interesting ways. It is still quite popular on Letterboxd, so let’s check it out.

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

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Letterboxd:

• Squid Game: https://letterboxd.com/film/squid-game/
• Fear and Desire: https://letterboxd.com/film/fear-and-desire/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Squid Game: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/821931?index1=-1&index2=-1
• Fear and Desire: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/70453

CWs for Squid Game:

• Child abandonment.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Child abuse.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Stalking.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Drug use.
• Deaths of animals.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of pet.
• Bugs.
• Genital trauma.
• Finger mutilation.
• Amputation.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Dislocations.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Death of family member.
• Kidnapping.
• Claustrophobia.
• Razors.
• Mannequins.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone soils themselves.
• Spitting.
• Eye mutilation.
• Squashed head.
• Decapitation.
• Incarceration.
• Needles.
• Cancer.
• Hospital scene.
• Misophonia.
• PTSD.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Body dysphoria.
• Mental illness.
• Nervous breakdown.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Asphyxiation.
• Choking.
• Flashing lights.
• Shaky cam.
• Jump scares.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Babies.
• Ableism.
• Hate speech.
• Misrepresentation of minority.
• Discussion of religion.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Dementia.
• Terminal illness.
• Chronic illness.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Homelessness.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Body horror.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Stabbing.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Death by falling.
• Unconsciousness.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Fear and Desire:

• Sexual assault: a woman is tied up and groped..
• Suicide.
• Torture.
• Self-harm.
• Blood and gore.
• Squashed head.
• Sex.
• Audio gore.
• Flashing lights.
• Shaky cam.
• Cannibalism.
• Fat jokes.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Misophonia.
• Gun violence.
• Broken bones.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Drug addiction.
• Stalking.
• Claustrophobia.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Plane crash.
• Mental illness.
• Kidnapping.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Squid Game (2021) s2e4: https://tankie.tube/w/oqtPGxMTjQXYcvK1vD6Hx7
• Squid Game (2021) s2e5: https://tankie.tube/w/4HHZjPT383WQtw2XFF26c4
• Squid Game (2021) s2e6: https://tankie.tube/w/c7zbsbY8NyNqnDXpNa4mfs
• Fear and Desire: https://tankie.tube/w/9GPqzUkUJPQrcMmDYdzft5

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What's the chef cookin' tonight?

Overview

• Reserved time: 180 minutes
• Through Deaf Eyes: 117 minutes
• Tokyo Magic Star E7: 12 minutes
• TV☆3SIS flourishes: 8 minutes
• Estimated door-holding: 15 minutes
• Estimated slack: 28 minutes
  • If we have at least 10 minutes left at the end we'll watch Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors episode 10.

The spoonful of sugar

Through Deaf Eyes

Through Deaf Eyes is a two-hour-long made-for-TV documentary film that aired on PBS in 2007. It chronicles the history of the Deaf community in {Seppoland|(USA)}, and also covers some basics of ASL and modern Seppolandic Deaf culture. It also features short films by various Deaf filmmakers throughout. I've already seen Through Deaf Eyes and highly recommend it. Some things I particularly like about Through Deaf Eyes compared to other documentaries about Deaf culture I've seen, are how Through Deaf Eyes talks about anti-Black racism in the Deaf community and how Black Deaf culture and BASL evolved from that; and how anti-ASL and anti-Deaf sentiments are connected to "nativist" politics of forced assimilation. These are some things that I think are vital for people to understand about Deaf issues!

Incidentally, I actually queued Through Deaf Eyes on Hextube (yes, Hextube! 'Member Hextube?) on I believe the day of the domain name fiasco, when a number of users had gathered on Hextube to discuss the domain name situation (I'm guessing their DNS cache was outdated or they'd maybe edited hosts.txt?). But when I queued this documentary on Hextube, it wasn't a formal watch party: I'd just put it on because there were a number of people in the chat with nothing better to watch; and Through Deaf Eyes eventually got voteskipped by the others in the chat when they did find other things to watch.

So that's really a big reason why I wanted to organize a proper watch party for this documentary over a year later: so that we can finally see this very long and very interesting documentary all the way to the end!

The medicine

Tokyo Magic Star episode 7

Tokyo Magic Star is an influential 2012-2018 shoujo idol horror magical-girl fanime we saw the first half of last week; Kisaka Toriama is notably a fan of it. It is the ten-episode chef d'oeuvre of Kawaiiouija / Mari (he/him), who also created Terrence Terribly Troubled and Yay! Cat Evan's Future. A second season of Tokyo Magic Star was going to be made, but had to be put on hiatus due to Mari's voice dropping, leaving him unable to voice the characters.

Plot description from Fanime Realm:

Sakura Masayuki is a normal 15-year-old girl who wants to live out her dream of becoming an idol. After passing an audition and getting signed to a company with her friend, Umi Matsuoka, the two see the world change slowly around them. The two then find out they have been chosen as sacrifices to Satan and have to become magical girls to stop his evil duing [sic] or else! However, they will not give up without a fight. Sakura, "Death", and Umi, "Depression", will now try and fight to save themselves from being killed. Along with their new friend Ichigo Kojima, "Despair", and Tomomi Usaki, who is also "Death" from years earlier, the four will try and defeat Satan's crew or else the cycle will repeat itself again.

Episode 7 was published on December 23, 2014, about half a year after the last episode we watched.

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language:

• American Sign Language (Through Deaf Eyes)
• Not available (Tokyo Magic Star)

Captions:

• English softsubs (Through Deaf Eyes)
• Not available (Tokyo Magic Star)

Language of audio: English

Content warnings:

• FLASHING LIGHTS
• Depictions or discussions of audism, anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, xenophobia, and other prejudices
• Mild blood
• Children in peril

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[epic sax solo]
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Guyver: Dark Hero (also known as Guyver 2: Dark Hero[a]; released in the Philippines as Predator 3) is a 1994 American science fiction tokusatsu superhero film based on the manga and anime, Bio Booster Armor Guyver. It is a sequel to the 1991 film The Guyver. Written by Nathan Long and directed by Steve Wang, the film stars David Hayter in the title role, replacing Jack Armstrong.

Guyver: Dark Hero follows Sean Barker, an unwilling host to a biomechanical alien armor, who travels to a Utah archaeological site to uncover its origins. There, he must fight the Cronos Corporation and a rogue Zoanoid threat to prevent them from exploiting ancient alien technology.

We'll be checking the English Version with English Subtitles (thanks Garg).

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Like Father, Like Son (2013), a Japanese family drama from renowned auteur Hirokau Kore-eda, whose films Shoplifters (2018), Nobody Knows (2004), Still Walking (2008), and After Life (1998) we previously watched. It centers on an overworked architect with a wife and kids who learns that his six-year-old son was swapped with another child at birth. Drama ensues as the two families meet, and try to decide whether they should swap sons again. This received wide critical acclaim, and is currently ranked #380 on the Letterboxd Top 500.

After that is The Pilgrim (1923), Charlie Chaplin’s 39-minute slapstick short/featurette. This time, the Tramp is criminal who escapes from jail and disguises himself as the pastor of the local church. Hilarity ensues as he adjusts to his new, fraudulent job. Considered one of Chaplin’s better shorts.

Last is Little Caesar (1931), an old-timey gangster film starring Edward G. Robinson as a small-time hoodlum who shoots his way to the top of the Chicago mafia hierarchy. Uh-oh, turns out the very aggressiveness and ruthlessness that proved so useful in his rise will also lead to his downfall, as he makes many enemies and attracts the attention of the law. I’m sure this will all turn out well for him. Director Mervyn LeRoy also did the showbiz rom-com Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), which we previously watched. This is considered one of the classic gangster flicks of the 1930s, so let’s check it out.

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

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Letterboxd:

• Like Father, Like Son: https://letterboxd.com/film/like-father-like-son-2013/
• The Pilgrim: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-pilgrim/
• Little Caesar: https://letterboxd.com/film/little-caesar/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Like Father, Like Son: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2331143/parentalguide/
• The Little Caesar: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021079/parentalguide/

CWs for Like Father, Like Son:

• Reference to prostitution.
• Profanity.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• A child runs away from home.
• Child abandonment.

CWs for Little Caesar:

• Gun violence.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• Misogyny.
• Police brutality.
• Beatings.

Links to movies:

• Like Father, Like Son: https://tankie.tube/w/4JE7RuVejAjV4P1DcWbTYG
• The Pilgrim: https://tankie.tube/w/43nurhwV5ncNvSxgobuwkA
• Little Caesar: https://tankie.tube/w/hzkE1pGaDi3LhkeCR93Hd4

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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Chainsaw Man (2022), the 12-episode anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s 2018 manga of the same name. It follows a young man who fuses with his pet devil to fight other demons so that he can pay his debts to the yakuza. Lucky for him, he can turn his body parts into chainsaws to unleash some gory vengeance upon the villains of the world. Yes, they pretty much remade Devilman, but with chainsaws. Expect a whole lot of over-the-top bloodshed. The showrunners include people who worked on Jujutsu Kaisen (2020), Darling in the Franxx (2018), and Little Witch Academia (2017), among other shows. Episodes 1 through 6 tonight.

After that is Time Masters (1982), a French surrealist animated space opera feature from Rene Laloux, the director better-known for Fantastic Planet (1973), which we previously watched. As with that film, it features artwork and character designs by renowned artist Jean Giraud, a.k.a. Moebius. It centers on a group of space travelers racing across the cosmos to rescue an orphan boy stranded on a hostile desert planet populated by all sorts of bizarre creatures. Their journey eventually requires them to travel through time and deal with some time paradoxes. Great reviews for this one, if not quite as great as for its predecessor.

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

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Letterboxd:

• Chainsaw Man: https://letterboxd.com/film/chainsaw-man-2022/
• Time Masters: https://letterboxd.com/film/time-masters/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Chainsaw Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/942314
• Time Masters: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/212418

CWs for Chainsaw Man:

• Death of dog.
• Pooping.
• Child abandonment.
• Child abuse.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Drug use.
• Deaths of animals.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Sad animal.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Genital trauma.
• Finger mutilation.
• Amputation.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Death of child.
• Deaths of non-humans.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Claustrophobia.
• Razors.
• Possession.
• Ghosts.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Eye mutilation.
• Tooth damage.
• Squashed head.
• Decapitation.
• Hospital scene.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Mental illness.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Asphyxiation.
• Choking.
• Shaky cam.
• Jump scares.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Age-gap romance.
• Demons.
• Suicide attempt.
• Suicidal attempt.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Sexual assault: attempted r*pe of woman in episode 7.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Stabbing.
• Unconsciousness.

CWs for Time Masters:

• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Deaths of animals.
• Bugs.
• Plane crash.
• Blood and gore.
• Surrealism.
• Gun violence.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Chainsaw Man ep. 1: https://tankie.tube/w/886grj3sUhGr2g2SqrPeUz
• Chainsaw Man ep. 2: https://tankie.tube/w/5ruUdta4qe1wjnnY2GgudJ
• Chainsaw Man ep. 3: https://tankie.tube/w/2q2cs9LBhriDBavWf2xRH9
• Chainsaw Man ep. 4: https://tankie.tube/w/pp9FXq7hbr4BTmguQ17wD2
• Chainsaw Man ep. 5: https://tankie.tube/w/vA8si85mCMroTpRJsjvcPi
• Chainsaw Man ep. 6: https://tankie.tube/w/1aWKtVboG2WnKZyLrV9GV9
• Time Masters: https://tankie.tube/w/hzE68FepTHDsK57tcJq8E2

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Babe (1995), a family film about a talking pig who is taken from his mother and ends up on a farm where every animal but him has a purpose. Uh-oh, he discovers he’s bound for the slaughterhouse, but lucky for him, he also shows a talent for sheep-herding, and uses it to avoid becoming dinner. This is by far the best-known and most-acclaimed film of Australian director Chris Noonan; received rave reviews at the time and was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

After that is Babe: Pig in the City (1998), the darker, edgier, more surreal and unsettling sequel, in which Farmer Hoggett breaks his leg and the gang is forced to move into the big city in search of new opportunities. It’s a weird place where everything is topsy-turvy and nothing to seems to make any sense. Babe becomes caught up in a murder plot somehow. Director George Miller is best-known for Mad Max (1979) and its sequels. This was Gene Siskel’s #1 movie of 1998. Time to finally cross this one off the list.

Last in Match Factory Girl (1990), a Finnish black comedy from renowned auteur Aki Kaurismaki, whose restaurant-owner comedy Drifting Clouds (1996) we previously watched. It centers on a woman in a dead-end factory job with an overbearing mother who steals her paychecks. The lady hooks up with a guy, and finds herself pregnant; after the guy abandons her, she goes on a deadpan, darkly-comic quest for revenge. Events escalate from there in Kaurismaki’s signature taciturn fashion. One of the highest-rated Finnish films on Letterboxd.

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Letterboxd:

• Babe: https://letterboxd.com/film/babe/
• Babe: Pig in the City: https://letterboxd.com/film/babe-pig-in-the-city/
• Match Factory Girl: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-match-factory-girl/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Babe: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8788
• Babe: Pig in the City: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8789
• Match Factory Girl: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/83774

CWs for Babe and Babe: Pig in the City:

• Carnism.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Child abuse.
• Child abandonment.
• Death of parent.
• Gaslighting.
• Deaths of animals.
• Dogfighting.
• Sad animal.
• Animal abandonment.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Gun violence.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Kidnapping.
• Pooping.
• Needles.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Throat mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Unconsciousness.
• Death of dog.
• Broken bones.
• Kidnapping.
• Jump scares.
• Clowns.
• Cancer.
• Hospital scene.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Drowning.

CWs for Match Factory Girl:

• Vomiting.
• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Misophonia.
• Miscarriage.
• Hate speech.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Slapping of woman.
• Death of family member.
• Hospital scene.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Babe: https://tankie.tube/w/dqpXBqAwG77AqhuXwsazZU
• Babe: Pig in the City: https://tankie.tube/w/kD6p4E2oeWxYs2BrgSjHSx
• The Match Factory Girl: https://tankie.tube/w/gfAXNCqUcDMwZkVUk9V7Sk

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The visual cuisine for tonight is Magic Knight Rayearth, the Courage & Scooby crossover special, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, Abdala: The Return of the Lords of Xalaba, and A Possible Place.

6 pm est

Magic Knight Rayearth follows Fuu, Umi, and Hikaru as they are transported to the world of Zephyr and given the mission to rescue the captured Princess Esmeralda.

8 pm est

Due to popular demand we will be starting God Nights: we finished Courage last week and will end dog nights with Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby Doo meets Courage the Cowardly Dog. Straight Outta Nowhere is a crossover movie about the Scooby Gang going to Nowhere, Kansas - Courage's home.

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. We will finish the show tonight.

Abdala: The Return of the Lords of Xabala is an animated Cuban short that takes place before our time in an ancient yet futuristic setting.

A Possible Place is another animated short.

Thanks to Redcuban for subtitling the animated shorts.

content warnings:

Magic Knight Rayearth:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112057/parentalguide/

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16420?index1=-1&index2=-1

• An animal that looks like a cat dies
• Animals/beasts/monsters are faught and sometimes killed
• Mild sexual content
• Sexualization of female characters
• Light blood
• Cartoon violence
• Alcohol is referenced
• Tension

Straight Outta Nowhere:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/792644

• 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
• Giant bugs
• torture: Characters are forced to dance
• Clowns

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 Friday Movie Night, first up is C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), a French-language Canadian dramedy about a young man living with his four brothers in a conservative Quebec household in the 1960s, only to realize that, uh oh, he’s gay. His macho dad does not approve, nor do the homophobic Catholic authorities. Will those around him learn to accept his burgeoning homosexuality, and for that matter, will he accept it himself? I guess we’ll find out. Dudes rock, I hope. This is one of the highest-rated Canadian films on Letterboxd. Director Jean-Marc Vallee is best-known for the AIDS drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013); this is arguably his magnum opus.

BONUS: Between the features, we will watch Buster Keaton’s 26-minute slapstick short The Balloonatic (1923), which features Buster and his lady friend stranded in the wilderness after he crashes his balloon. They try to one-up each other with their survival skills, and much hilarity ensues. Another Buster classic.

After that is You Only Live Once (1937), a proto-noir-thriller from renowned auteur Fritz Lang, whose work has appeared numerous times on the ‘tube, with such films as Die Nibelung (1924), Fury (1936), The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945), and The Big Heat (1953). Inspired by real-life fugitives Bonnie & Clyde, it follows an ex-con (Henry Fonda) who tries to put his life on track after his release, only to be framed for murder. He busts out of jail again and goes on the run with his wife (Sylvia Sidney), forcing them into a life of crime to stay out of the law’s reach. This is one of Lang’s better-regarded films, so let’s check it out.

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Letterboxd:

• C.R.A.Z.Y.: https://letterboxd.com/film/crazy-2005/
• The Balloonatic: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-balloonatic/
• You Only Live Once: https://letterboxd.com/film/you-only-live-once/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• C.R.A.Z.Y.: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401085/parentalguide/
• You Only Live Once: Sorry, nothing on DTDD, or IMDB.

CWs for C.R.A.Z.Y.:

• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Bullying.
• Fistfighting.
• Blood.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Profanity.
• Drug use.
• Dysfunctional family.

CWs for You Only Live Once:

• Gun violence.
• Prison scene.
• Police brutality.
• Misogyny.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• C.R.A.Z.Y.: https://tankie.tube/w/scTQ1AHcCJExWHJtPnnkdH
• The Balloonatic: https://tankie.tube/w/2bSNonoXaKSBQP2D9e7ytr
• You Only Live Once: https://tankie.tube/w/tEz4bT2dWYaiDFYLtVMyXw

Panty & Stocking S2E10 (24 minutes), from Wikipedia:

"The Sex from Another World": Panty, an alien invader, crash-lands on Earth and absorbs the life force of men through sexual intercourse.

"Lord of the Kokan the Great": A barbarian warrior (Panty) embarks with her dragon steed (Stocking) to avenge a loved one (Garterbelt) who was killed by a two-headed demon (Scanty and Kneesocks).

Panty & Stocking S2E11 (25 minutes), from Wikipedia:

"Being Chuck Maldehole": Brief is trapped underground with Chuck after falling down a mysterious hole.

"Panty Shorts and the Penis of Doom": Garterbelt sends the Anarchy Sisters and Brief to find a lust-inducing artifact in an ancient ruin.

"The Plush": Stocking is targeted by a time traveler named Tom Croose Jr., who tries stopping her from repairing her torn Honekoneko plush, which would cause a hostile takeover of intelligent Honekonekos in the future; he is in turn hunted by a robotic Honekoneko from 2029 after Stocking makes an online post about it.

• CW for Panty & Stocking: LEWD and edgy humor

Hazbin Hotel S1E5 (25 minutes), from IMDB:

"Dad Beat Dad": Charlie struggles with asking her father, Lucifer, for help. Meanwhile, an unexpected new arrival shakes things up at the hotel.

• CW for Hazbin Hotel: Even more LEWD and edgy humor. Sometimes deals with very dark/serious topics.

Daria S2E2-S2E3 (21 minutes each), from Wikipedia:

"The Daria Hunter": Lawndale High goes on another field trip, this time to a local paintball course, with Helen and Jake as parental chaperones.

"Quinn the Brain": Quinn needs a quick passing grade in English, and ends up writing an impressive essay (by Lawndale standards, that is), but fears that it might give her a reputation as a nerd.

CW for Daria: 90s show, so may have some dated humor

31 Minutos S1E12 (30 minutos), from Wikipedia:

"Patana": Patana, Tulio's niece, comes to ask for work from the program.

• CW for 31 Minutos: It's a kids show, so very tame but still fun

We'll be watching at:

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Second Mother (2015), a Brazilian drama focusing on the classism and exploitation suffered by domestic servants. The two main characters are one such woman, who had to send her own daughter away to work in the home of an affluent family. After many years, her daughter reappears in her life all grown up, and wants to re-connect and help her. Unfortunately, she has no training as a domestic servant, so her presence threatens to upend her mother’s routine. Drama ensues. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Anna Muylaert, and one of the highest-rated Brazilian films on Letterboxd, being currently ranked #405 on the Letterboxd Top 500

BONUS: Between the features, we will watch Buster Keaton’s 22-minute slapstick short The Boat (1921), which features Buster as a boat builder trying to make ends meet for his family by attempting to set sail in his new ship. Hilarity ensues as everything goes wrong in the usual slapstick fashion. Considered one of his better shorts.

After that is Obsession (2025), a horror/romance about a man who buys a magical “One Wish Willow” and immediately sues it to make his crush fall in love with him. This goes about as well as you would expect, with the lady obsessing over him to a dangerous degree. The budding romance turns quickly from euphoric to terrifying as he tries to find a way to free his crush from the demon now controlling her body. It made its rounds on the festival circuit last year and is just now going into general release. A decent-quality camrip has just appeared, so that is the version we will watch. This is the debut feature of zillennial director Curry Barker; it has received rave reviews, being currently ranked #327 on the Letterboxd Top 500.

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

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Second Mother: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-second-mother/
• The Boat: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-boat/
• Obsession: https://letterboxd.com/film/obsession-2025-2/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Second Mother: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/92118
• Obsession: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1350693

CWs for The Second Mother:

• Age-gap romance.
• Middle-aged man sexually harasses a teenage girl.
• Fat jokes.
• Alcohol.
• Profanity.
• Drug use.
• Classism.

CWs for Obsession:

• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Abused person forgives their abuser.
• Gaslighting.
• Stalking.
• Drug use.
• Death of cat.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Genital trauma.
• Slapping of woman.
• Suicide.
• Drug overdose.
• Jump scares.
• Possession.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Pooping.
• Someone soils themselves.
• Spitting.
• Eye mutilation.
• Tooth damage.
• Squashed head.
• Misophonia.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Unstable reality.
• Dissociation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Nervous breakdown.
• Asphyxiation.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sexual assault: a man has sex with a woman under mind control.
• Mention of sexual assault.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Death by crushing.
• Stabbing.
• Unconsciousness.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• The Second Mother: https://tankie.tube/w/8ywYaMQ5F6XwKpUcoWc47C
• The Boat: https://tankie.tube/w/raFySRkh26qH4iEQhSVZ8b
• Obsession: https://tankie.tube/w/hVdT2xiXLWhCdEMpFbCBWe

Panty & Stocking S2E8 (24 minutes), from Wikipedia:

"Break the Internet": In the "first episode" of a police serial, rookie police officer Impact Cop is dispatched to find the root of evil in Daten City.

"The Silence of the Internets": In the serial's "last episode", Impact Cop's superintendent general is murdered and the police station destroyed by a monster claiming to be the true root of all evil.

"Fa Fa F*ck": Garterbelt reports Panty's incessant profanity to Heaven's censors, who fit her with a tongue ring that severs and regrows her tongue whenever she swears.

Panty & Stocking S2E9 (25 minutes), from Wikipedia:

"The Ohagi of Doom": Stocking competes against one hundred million Ghosts in a rock paper scissors tournament for a limited edition ohagi.

"Not 2 Home Alone:" The Newgen Angels infiltrate the Anarchy Sisters' home after sending them on a wild goose chase, but due to various mishaps and compromising situations in the sisters' rooms, the other tenants mistake them for the sisters themselves.

"Six Hundred Sixty Six Candles": Scanty disappears on Kneesocks' 666th birthday, breaking her childhood promise to attend every year. To cheer her up, Panty brings Kneesocks to Brief's high school prom, which is attacked by a man-eating Ghost.

• CW for Panty & Stocking: LEWD and edgy humor

Hazbin Hotel S1E4 (24 minutes), from IMDB:

"Masquerade": Angel struggles to juggle his work and his time at the Hotel. Charlie decides it's time to put her 'Princess' status to use with Angel's boss.

• CW for Hazbin Hotel: Even more LEWD and edgy humor

Daria S1E13-S2E1 (21 minutes each), from Wikipedia:

"The Misery Chick": After an obnoxious local celebrity (alumni quarterback Tommy Sherman) dies on a visit to Lawndale High, everyone seeks counsel from Daria about being miserable. Meanwhile, Jane is being strangely distant, and Daria thinks she knows why; eventually she goes to Jane's to confirm her suspicion.

"Arts 'N Crass": Daria and Jane create an iconoclastic poster for a contest depicting a teenage girl who secretly has an eating disorder, but Ms. Li and Mr. O'Neill keep urging Daria and Jane to change the artwork into something more positive, leading Daria and Jane to commit vandalism to save their work. Meanwhile, Jake loses his job as a consultant after a failed project and is desperate to find a new client.

CW for Daria: 90s show, so may have some dated humor

31 Minutos S1E11 (31 minutos), from Wikipedia:

"The leak": Some plumbers must fix a leak in the studio so that everything is impeccable when the interviewee arrives.

• CW for 31 Minutos: It's a kids show, so very tame but still fun

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G-Saviour (Japanese: Gセイバー, Hepburn: Jī-Seibā) is a 1999 joint US-Japan live-action television film, filmed in Canada and created as part of the Gundam anime franchise, produced by Polestar Entertainment under the supervision of Sunrise and distributed by Bandai Visual.

Set in Universal Century 0223, G-Saviour follows former military pilot Mark Curran, who discovers that the oppressive space government (CONSENT) is hoarding a new bioluminescent enzyme capable of solving Earth's food crisis. Curran joins rebel forces and a secret organization to protect a neutral colony and defeat his former corrupt commanders using the advanced G-Saviour mobile

We'll be checking the English Version with English Subtitles (thanks Garg).

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Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 American animated space opera film directed and produced by Steven Hahn, and written by Jeffrey Scott. Starchaser: The Legend of Orin was one of the first animated movies to mix traditional and computer animation, as well as one of the first to be released in 3D. Steven Hahn, a veteran animator in TV animation, decided during the off-season to produce a feature film in order to give his South Korean animation studio something to work on.

On the planet Trinia, humans have been enslaved for over a thousand years in the "Mine-World," deep underground. They mine red crystals for Zygon, a despotic cyborg they worship as a god. A young miner named Orin discovers a jeweled sword hilt. Orin and his girlfriend Elan attempt to reach the surface. On the surface, Orin is nearly harvested for parts by swamp-dwelling "Man-Droids" before being rescued by Dagg Dibrimi, a cynical, cigar-chomping smuggler. They are joined by Princess Aviana, the ship's neurotic AI, and Silica, a "fembot".

We'll be checking the English Dub.

Baoh (バオー来訪者 Baō Raihōsha, lit. Baoh: The Visitor) is a single-episode OVAW adaption of the manga series Baoh: The Visitor by Hirohiko Araki, creator of JoJo. It was produced by Studio PierrotW and was released on September 16, 1989.

It follows Ikuro, a teenager implanted with a parasitic bioweapon, who goes on the run from a sinister organization to protect a young psychic girl. Dr. Kasuminome desperate to recover his greatest experiment, sends waves of deadly assassins, cyborgs, and superpowered psychics to hunt the duo down. Forced into life-or-death situations, Ikuro repeatedly transforms into his alter-ego, Baoh, to brutally obliterate his pursuers.

We'll be checking the English Dub.

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This week Hairy Harmonies looks at real life trans stories turned into made-for-TV Emmy-bait. There is a lot to criticize here, from lack of cinematic style, through self-praise for making 'important' content, to simplified stories made for wide distribution, but on the positive side, at least these stories DID get wide distribution. So let's see how the mainstream tries to be accepting. First, from Showtime, is Soldier's Girl (2003), and then Carlotta (2014) from Australia's ABC. Yes, there's singing.

Soldier's Girl (2003)

1h 52min 1sec, English with optional English subtitles
Director: Frank Pierson

Synopsis: Within the on-base army culture of toxic masculinity and shaming everyone for anything all the time, one soldier becomes attracted to night club personality.

2004 Winner AFI Award TV Program of the Year

Carlotta (2014)

1h 31min 3sec, English with hard coded in English subtitles
Director: Samantha Lang

Synopsis: Jessica Marais, stars as Carlotta in this TV movie based on the extraordinary life of the iconic Les Girls headliner and Australian transgender pioneer (yes, they cast a cis woman for the lead trans role).

Won 3 2015 AACTA Awards (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts):
Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama: Eamon Farren
Best Production Design in Television: Murray Picknett
Best Costume Design in Television: Jenny Miles

p.s. The real Carlotta was born in 1943 and is still active at age 82.

Content Warnings:

Soldier's Girl: U.S. Rated R for sexual content, a scene of strong violence and language
Sex & Nudity: Mild
Violence & Gore: Moderate
Profanity: Severe
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Severe
Frightening & Intense Scenes: Moderate
hidden spoilers from https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/215695

Carlotta: Australia DVD rating: M (there's no graphic violence)
no ratings nor warnings on imdb nor on https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/335852 BUT there were things I noticed so I made my own list for us:

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letterboxd

https://letterboxd.com/film/soldiers-girl/
https://letterboxd.com/film/carlotta/

movie links:

• 4pm EDT / 20:00 UTC - Soldier's Girl: https://tankie.tube/w/iNVJCvYL5SiTHURw3cqR8D
• 6pm EDT / 22:00 UTC - Carlotta: https://tankie.tube/w/3gaXVg9TScay9MBeUdxd8f

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Due to popular demand, the visual cuisine for tonight are some episodes from Superman & Batman the animated series, four episodes of Sealab 2021, and Archer episodes.

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

Sealab 2021 follows an aquatic colony and its people who hate each other. Due to popular demand we will watch multiple Sealab 2021 episodes since it is referenced heavily in Archer. The episodes are shorter so we will attempt watching four.

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

Sealab 2021

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/599245?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Bestiality
• A character is crushed to death
• A character drowns
• A character threatens suicide
• Antisemistism
• Fourth wall is broken

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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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Berserk (2016), the third animated adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s 1989 manga of the same name. Good news; this one adapts the arc following the Golden Age saga, finally resolving the mother-of-all-cliffhangers from the 1997 series and the only-slightly-less-hanging ending of the 2012 series. A muscle-bound, sword-wielding he-man named Guts accrues a rag-tag band of companions 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 not as highly-regarded as the 1997 series, but it continues the story, which is good enough for me. Episodes 19 through 24 tonight, wrapping up the series.

After that is American Pop (1981), an animated musical from renowned adult-animation auteur Ralph Bakshi, whose films Fritz the Cat (1972), Wizards (1977), Lord of the Rings (1978), Rock and Rule (1983), and Cool World (1992) we previously watched. It follows four generations of a family descended from a Russian-Jewish immigrant to New York in the early 20th century, leading up to the then-present of the 1980s amidst a backdrop of the musical revolutions that took place over eighty years. As usual for Bakshi, the film makes extensive use of rotoscoping, but it looks less slapdash than usual here. The soundtrack features tunes from The Doors, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed, and Jimi Hendrix, among others. This is often considered his best film, so let’s check it out.

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Letterboxd:

• Berserk: https://myanimelist.net/anime/32379/Berserk
• American Pop: https://letterboxd.com/film/american-pop/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Berserk: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9832
• American Pop: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10139

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.
• 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 American Pop:

• Child abuse.
• Sex.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Abusive parents.
• Flashing lights.
• Throat mutilation.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Needles.
• Child abandonment.
• Gun violence.
• Broken bones.
• Someone is drugged.
• Death of parent.
• Unstable reality.
• Drug addiction.
• Cheating.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Razors.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Drug overdose.
• Hospital scene.
• Screaming.
• Clowns.
• Drug use.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Homelessness.

Links to movies:

• Berserk (2016) ep. 19: https://tankie.tube/w/cKie9xnzDnCWcEGkhaBThD
• Berserk (2016) ep. 20: https://tankie.tube/w/ac8e4RwKyBLXfbA4E3SE8D
• Berserk (2016) ep. 21: https://tankie.tube/w/rXqc4PzCExYN4gd4v8uuhM
• Berserk (2016) ep. 22: https://tankie.tube/w/rneFrTdnUacoT19LyLGfTx
• Berserk (2016) ep. 23: https://tankie.tube/w/oVoi4PxHkMUrFDTf2GJBYD
• Berserk (2016) ep. 24: https://tankie.tube/w/eYNpCJ3C3Rst36EJEzobhV
• American Pop: https://tankie.tube/w/cEATrRGTNf5mN6MXhbzkJh

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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.

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

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

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.

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

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

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