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Blessings upon you, friend.
Original title (JP): ムーンライズ (Mūnraizu, Japanese phonetic for "Moonrise")
After rebel forces attack Earth, a carefree heir becomes the prime suspect and joins a special military unit to find the true mastermind on the Moon.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/203740
Before folks get too excited about this, there's a whiff of this being a hit piece against Section 230, the part of US law that provides "good Samaritan" protection to website operators against civil lawsuits over the content on their platforms.
There's a big push to either repeal or replace this law which, while quite flawed in many ways, effectively shapes what is and isn't permitted on the Internet.
Does it need improvement? Absolutely. But is this the Congress you want deciding what those changes should be?
Well buckle up, because it’s fucking happening:
'Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media' is a gripping documentary that exposes the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young users. Directors Matthew O'Neill and Perri Peltz take viewers inside the high-stakes legal battle to hold tech companies accountable for the harm caused by their negligence and dangerous algorithms. Based on investigative reporting by Bloomberg News' Olivia Carville, the film follows the Social Media Victims Law Center fighting for justice for families whose children suffered tragic consequences linked to social media use. As families seek justice, 'Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media' underscores the urgent need for industry reform and serves as both a wake-up call about the dangers of social media-and a call to action to protect future generations.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1452058-can-t-look-away-the-case-against-social-media
Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies. THE ENCAMPMENTS follows the central organizers of the encampment as they are thrust into the spotlight, face violent police repression and suspension, congressional pressure, and a media firestorm, all while fighting to attain their goal of divestment at any cost.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1418174-the-encampments
On the streets of Dublin, Danny, a homeless man grappling with the ghosts of his past, finds himself caught in a cycle of despair and survival. Haunted by memories of his time serving in the Royal Irish Army, Danny's life takes a turn when he encounters Will, a young teenager on the run from a dangerous drug gang.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1311660-amongst-the-wolves
Internationally known jazz fusion vocalist, Chantae Cann, confronts her own genetic destiny, as she embarks on a mission to spread awareness about her and her family’s journey with Huntington's disease.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1417782-beautiful-brave
Original title (JP): ドラゴンボールDAIMA
From wikipedia: Dragon Ball Daima (Japanese: ドラゴンボールDAIMA) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the sixth televised animated installment in the Dragon Ball media franchise, and the second and last to have been written by franchise creator Akira Toriyama, who died in March 2024. The series is scheduled to begin broadcast on Fuji TV on October 11, 2024.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/236994
I don't want to make a habit of posting every 4k restoration release that I come across, just culturally and cinematicly significant works.
This one is just for fun.
A BMX racer, who lives in a small town with his mother and sister, is faced with a tough decision, qualify for Helltrack or take his SATs in order to attend college.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13841-rad
While performing an unauthorized exorcism on his father, an elite exorcist suspects the entity he's doing battle with might be a holy being – perhaps even God.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1227003-shadow-of-god
A group of friends hit crossroads in their lives, stumbling over decisions about relationships and careers.
No tmdb or imdb link yet
Isn’t a lot of that just fancy chemistry?
“AMATEURS!” bellows the shadowy mathematician from the dark corner.
I have so many questions.
I worked for a major CDN for quite some time, and there was no shortage of divination and reading-of-tea-leaves regarding who was up, who was down, who is surviving and who will get acquired in the content provider space. OTT media was easy money until everyone rolled out multi-cdn solutions and started putting the screws to each vendor for better prices. It was brutal, but I learned a lot about business watching it happen.
How much of all that AAPL buyout discussion do you think was 100% hopium? Sure Paramount had assets and means, but why would Apple want to acquire that and not rent it? Let studios claw at each others heels to produce viable content while AAPL sits back and pays a premium to choose the best bargain. Apple+ was never interested in being #1; the service is just table stakes at their scale (like Paramount Plus one might argue). AAPL’s business is manufacturing lifestyle products and hype. How was Paramount expecting their acquisition to bolster those pillars?
What was your vantage of the Ugly Sonic debacle (circa 2019)?
What did other execs have to say about Mother! (2017)? It was a beautiful disaster and I loved it, but it couldn’t have had many fans internally.
This CBS/Viacom tug of war had to be brutal as well, but the entire enterprise seems to be all under the Paramount umbrella now. Any regrets?
While on a road trip, a photographer befriends a young couple whose reckless ways turn his world upside down and into a nightmare in this unpredictable and horror-tinged neo-noir knockout.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1276038-a-desert
Folding towels, straightening out sheets, taking bathrobes out of the dryer, stripping beds, cleaning up vomit. Fluffing pillows—making a dent for elegantly turned-up corners—and endless scrubbing, cleaning and clearing up messes. Behind the scenes of a hotel in the Italian Dolomites, the staff do everything they can to serve the guests and prevent complaints. The hotel has four stars, and a fifth is in sight.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1374399-personale
Exploring the failures of the criminal justice system from a unique angle, the film follows a young Latino boy (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) who puts his single mother's illegal marijuana business at risk when he befriends the new neighbors.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1205197-grassland
Put-upon lawman John Dorsey (Zach Roerig) is on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, so he posses up with bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden (Billy Zane) to hold outlaw Emily Rusk (Cara Jade Myers) hostage. A battle of wills ensues as Emily turns the posse on themselves, but as her marauding husband and his gang approach, Emily and John realize they will need each other to survive.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1414048-day-of-reckoning
My guess: distribution breadth and advertising spread are based partly on how much interest the trailer gets. And the trailer gets more interest if people get teased for it.
“But,” you protest, “isn’t that what teasers are for?”
I would think so, but maybe cutting one of these is easier, and teasers rarely have info about release dates (aside from the actual film release year, usually).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Growing up in the midst of the Zimbabwean War for independence, 8-year-old Bobo internalizes both sides of the struggle. Conflicted by her love for people on opposing sides, she tries to make sense of her life in a magical way.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1319972-don-t-let-s-go-to-the-dogs-tonight
Comedy series based on the 1981 feature film (trailer) about three couples who vacation together every season.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/243316-the-four-seasons
A savvy and free-spirited surfer (Hassie Harrison) is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Jai Courtney). Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1285965-dangerous-animals
The original article is here, but paywalled:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-streaming-losses-top-1-billion-year
I'd like to know if this accounts for it being a value-add service for Apple, something additional they can bolt into other services to entice a sale (iCloud bundles, third party subscriptions like T-Mobile service, credit card bonuses) where the company receives bulk backdoor support as part of the partnership.
That's the reason you see Apple and Amazon branching out like this. They aren't intended to be money-makers; they're loss leaders.
Troma was part of a second wave of purveyors of B-movie schlock back in the 1970s and 80s. They were harkening back to the older B-movies of the 1950s (Rocketship XM, The Amazing Colossal Man, Plan 9 from Outer Space, the stuff you would see on old episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000). This was all before the current try-hard dark ages of B-movies (The Room, Sharknado, Neil Breen movies, etc), and this may be another entry in that canon.
I'm holding out hope that they do something interesting with it. Peter Dinklage tends to make very good choices, and that's a great sign.
Also, I think it was Roger Ebert who once argued "Why remake good movies? They were fine as they were. Remake bad ones and try to make them better."
A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) into a new evolution of hero: THE TOXIC AVENGER! Now wielding a glowing mop with super-human strength, he must race against time to save his son and stop a ruthless and power-hungry tyrant bent on harnessing toxic superpowers to strengthen his polluted empire.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/338969-the-toxic-avenger
WB just posted a first-look trailer-for-a-trailer:
An ambitious, young chef (Benjamin Voisin) uses his seductive charm to work as a spy so he can save his father — and make his name.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/231001-careme
When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the standoff. Inspired by true events.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1371202-ihostage
Original title (TH): แก๊งหิมะเดือด (Kǽng h̄ima deụ̄xd, The Hot Snow Gang)
Driven by her personal agenda, a teacher at a juvenile detention center convinces a crew of teenage misfits to enter an snow sculpting contest in Japan.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1429743
Another vote for Patheon. The first season is a bit predictable, but things get genuinely interesting in the second and final season. The series got a really wonky release, and I'm not even sure season 2 is streaming anywhere (aside from random youtube uploads and other places).
Jérémie Périn, the director of Mars Express, has made some other works that are definately worth checking out:
- Crisis Jung - a series of 10 hyper-surreal short films (all posted to YouTube in their entirety) depicting a man's existential crisis through the lens of ultra-maximalist interpretations of Jungian philosophy. It's not funny, but it's completely ridiculous and a wild ride. If you're into the philosophical musings of The Good Place and the extremist imagery of Heavy Metal, this one is for you.
- Lastman - this is a 26 episode series about a boxer who gets caught up in a web of intrigue around crime, politics, people on the run and some really out-there sci-fi/fantasy stuff. The whole series is a prequel to a French graphic novel of the same name. Again, the show really sticks the landing in its second and final season.
Kaiba (2008) - This is one of the early works of Masaaki Yuasa (Inu-Oh, Keep Your Hands of Eizouken!, The Night is Short Walk on Girl, etc) and probably one of his weirdest. It's a super chibi depiction of a cyberpunk dystopia where bodies and minds are completely disconnected, following a mysterious central character with amnesia and a giant hole in their chest. Not all of it makes complete sense; it's one of those stories that starts mid-way through and you get filled in on the before and after as you go. It's ultimately worth it for some tremendous dramatic turns and an art style that is utterly unforgettable (not exaggerating).
Aeon Flux - Depending on your age, this may be new to you. This is a series of MTV-produced short films and a short run series of relatively disconnected anthology stories in a futuristic dystopian world as a barely-dressed spy does lots of freaky, violent sci-fi spy things. If you're looking for animated sci-fi stories and haven't seen this yet, put it on the top of your list (purely as a seminal work for fans of the genre).
I'll assume you've seen Arcane.
Carol and the End of the World (2023) - This is more along the lines of a personal dramatic story that happens to sit within a sci-fi setting. I really enjoyed sitting with this (aside from the penultimate episode, which seemed to have nothing to do with anything and almost certainly completely went over my head). There's humor here, but it's pretty thin and dark. I would not call this a comedy.
Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow series of shorts - Three short films from the minimalist animator whose work I'm delighted to see maturing and becoming so much more complex and interesting as the years go by.
- Episode 1: World of Tomorrow is free to watch on YouTube.
- Episodes 2 (The Burden of Other People's Thoughts) and 3 (The Absent Destinations of David Prime) can be rented on Vimeo.
Woke: Get illegally fired and act like you were fired illegally. Keep going to work. Let security block your entry. Argue that you still work there because the order to fire you was illegal. When you're arrested, take the matter to court and get legal standing on the fact that your firing was illegal.
Broke: Get illegally fired and whine on social media about it.
Lately, I keep coming back to Jóhann Jóhannsson's soundtrack to Arrival.
