On the plus side, Michael Madsen gets to reprise his role as the one character he’s played his entire career. That’s a win for everybody.
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The third season of Somebody, Somewhere just started!!!
Didn’t see any news about it, just happened to notice it said “new episode” like it was no big deal.
It’s on Max, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s wonderful in so many ways and unlike anything you’ve ever seen on TV.
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When I saw him in the cast list, my first thought was “Wait, I thought he was dead!” and had to go check. Apparently he’s still living, and somehow has 19 upcoming credits on IMDB. Keep getting paid, I guess?
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I had not heard of this. As a Kansan myself, I am honor bound to add this to my watchlist. We don’t get a lot of shows that take place here, so I try to watch them if I can. The last one I can remember off the top of my head was United States of Tera:
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Which was also excellent!
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Thanks to a discussion about the image in that post, I ended up watching the old classic last night with someone who hadn’t seen it before. Seemed appropriate for the season, too.
Favorite quote from discussion while watching: “Its like MC Escher started working in biology”
The overall reaction ended up as “you picked a gross movie”, but it was enough of a thinking (and non-jump-scare) movie to be an ok horror movie for a non-horror-fan. 
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Welcome to JFF Theater!
The Japan Foundation has newly launched the JFF Theater online streaming platform to further popularize Japanese films and videos around the world.
Based on the theme, “Moved, Touched & Inspired,” we aim to reach out to international audiences, fostering connections and inspiring exchanges among Japanese film fans, both new and old alike.
What is JFF Theater?
JFF Theater is an online streaming service that distributes Japanese films and videos worldwide, with multilingual subtitles, all free of charge.
Through this website, the Japan Foundation aims to create a platform where Japanese films and videos can be viewed anytime, anywhere.
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Sometimes interacting with others is such an exhausting task that it makes you want to disappear. And disappearing, not necessarily dying, is what Fran, a young girl who works at the Port Authority in a gray, cloudy, rainy, humid and apparently too quiet small town in the United States, does. One fine day a new co-worker appears and begins to take away her apathy. If it were one of those romantic comedies made in series, in the third act, after the couple’s separation, she would learn a valuable life lesson. But Rachel Lambert’s film escapes this trap and sensitively shows what the protagonist feels.
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Oh! About time!
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Even though it’s from 2023, a friend recently turned me on to my favorite movie this year, Perfect Days.
A toilet cleaner in Tokyo silently going about his daily life, finding beauty in quiet moments of stillness and vintage cassette tapes, not quite fitting in with the expectations of modern society. An achingly gorgeous, quiet meditation on relationships, contentedness, and expectation. Very sparse dialogue, and simple story, but wow what a depth that can be divined from the space between the words. A monument of “show, don’t tell” storytelling. The sparseness of it won’t be for everyone, but it refreshed my soul and I definitely teared up a few times.
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Spoilers for both Wicker Man films…
Trigger warning, for a discussion of a rape in a discussion in a stage play.
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Seven Breillat films are being added to Criterion this month, completely different ones from the four (Romance, Bluebeard, Sleeping Beauty, Abuse of Weakness) which were part of the last Breillat spotlight. 36 fillette is the only one I can personally recommend, but I’ve found her work to be quite good so far. Anatomy of Hell and A Real Young Girl reportedly have some quite explicit content, so they’re not terribly likely to show up on many other streaming services in the future. If those sound too intense, Sex is Comedy, inspired by Breillat’s real life difficulties shooting sex scenes in her prior work, promises lighter fare.
Oh, yes. Very much not a Hollywood movie.
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It was once called a fairytale for millenials. It is a 21 st Century fairytale for everyone.
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It’s been over 30 years since Clerks came out (Jan. of 1994)… Smith just released some new behind the scenes footage…
He put the intro at the end… 
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There was a James Bond in my class in high school. He was an asshole.
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There’s a guy I follow on that thar YouTube called the Feral Historian.
He wanders out into the Wilderness and natters about some sci-fi series or book or game, usually with some interesting observations.
He’s quite anti-authoritarian, but also seems to hold some views somewhat to the right of my own. Doesn’t stop me enjoying his content though.
If you fancy a gander, find him over here:
To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of youse lot are already familiar with his work and maybe even know him?
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