Television

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16039719

This series started last week, but it continues tonight Friday the 13th through November 1st.

The films are drawn from a list compiled by The New Republic last year of the 100 most impactful political movies.

The films encompass both documentaries and dramatized works; most are American, while a few are from other countries. Their release dates range from 1915 (The Birth of a Nation) to 2016 (I Am Not Your Negro). Many will have celebrity presenters introducing them, along with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

From Hollywood Reporter:

The series runs Sept. 6 to Nov. 1 — four days before America votes for its next president — and features TCM host Ben Mankiewicz in conversation with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Lee Grant, Sally Field, Andy Garcia, Melissa Etheridge, John Turturro, Bill Maher, Alexander Payne, Diane Lane, Josh Mankiewicz, Barry Levinson, Maureen Dowd, Stacey Abrams and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

More from the Advocate:

LGBTQ+ issues won’t be neglected. I Am Not Your Negro, for instance, is a documentary based onan unfinished manuscript by Black gay writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, reflecting on the lives of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Baldwin himself. The Times of Harvey Milk(1984) will be featured, presented by Sally Field, the proud mother of a gay son. Also scheduled are 1964’s The Best Man, scripted by gay writer Gore Vidal, in which a same-sex liaison threatens to derail a politician’s career, and Born in Flames, director Lizzie Borden’s 1983 vision of a dystopian future in which women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color are oppressed.

Borden will be among the celebrity presenters, introducing Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman’s 1975 feminist feature about a widow engaged in sex work. Melissa Etheridge will be a presenter as well, discussing the 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Times listed are for Eastern Time. I've skipped last week and bolded titles ranked in the top 20.

Friday, September 13 - Night Two

• 8:00 PM Reds (1981) (Bill Maher - #41)
• 11:30 PM The Parallax View (1974) (Kyle Smith - #47)
• 1:30 AM Germany, Year Zero (1948) (Alexander Payne - #97)
• 3:00 AM Gabriel Over the White House (1933) (#30)
• 4:30 AM The Battleship Potemkin (1925) (#7)
• 6:00 AM The Fog of War (2003) (#56)

Friday, September 20 - Night Three

• 8:00 PM Dr. Strangelove (1964) (Spike Lee - #3)
• 9:45 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Stacey Abrams - #11)
• 12:15 AM Hearts and Minds (1974) (Phil Mattingly - #39)
• 2:15 AM The Lives of Others (2006) (#19)
• 4:45 AM Born in Flames (1983) (#43)
• 6:15 AM Bicycle Thieves (1948) (#52)

Friday, September 27 - Night Four

• 8:00 PM Three Days of the Condor (1975) (Maureen Dowd - #72)
• 10:15 PM I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (Sara Sidner - #58)
• 12:00 AM The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Melissa Etheridge - #88)
• 1:30 AM The Last Hurrah (1958) (#57)
• 3:45 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968) (#35)
• 5:15 AM The Tin Drum (1979) (#92)

Friday, October 4 - Night Five

• 8:00 PM The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) (Sally Field - #81)
• 10:00 PM The Best Man (1964) (Josh Mankiewicz - #69)
• 12:00 AM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (Sec. Lonnie Bunch III - #95)
• 1:45 AM City Hall (1996) (#80)
• 3:45 AM Strike (1924) (#25)
• 5:15 AM High and Low (1963) (#84)

Friday, October 11 - Night Six

• 8:00 PM A Face in the Crowd (1957) (Barry Levinson - #10)
• 10:15 PM Wag the Dog (1997) (Diane Lane - #54)
• 12:00 AM The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) (Abby Phillip - #37)
• 1:45 AM JFK (1991) (#34)
• 5:00 AM Z (1969) (#15)
• 7:15 AM Night and Fog (1956) (#21)

Friday, October 18 - Night Seven

• 8:00 PM The Birth of a Nation (1915) (Jamelle Bouie - #5)
• 11:30 PM Lincoln (2012) (Hon. Robert M. Gates - #24)
• 2:15 AM Malcolm X (1992) (#22)
• 6:00 AM Primary (1960) (#38)

Friday, October 25 - Night Eight

• 8:00 PM All the President’s Men (1976) (Steven Spielberg - #4)
• 10:30 PM Citizen Kane (1941) (Frank Luntz - #33)
• 12:45 AM Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Lizzie Borden - #36)
• 4:15 AM Olympia Part One: Festival of Nations (1938) (#86)
• 6:15 AM Olympia Part Two: Beauty of the Festival (1938) (#86)

Friday, November 1 - Night Nine

• 8:00 PM Being There (1979) (Andy Garcia - #71)
• 10:30 PM The Candidate (1972) (Kaitlan Collins - #20)
• 12:30 AM Harlan County USA (1976) (Lee Grant - #12)
• 2:15 AM The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (#2)
• 4:00 AM Weekend (1967) (#94)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17568605

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2207504

Jedi do not kidnap.

Adoption is not kidnapping by itself (though it certainly can be in, for example, U.S. history).

The Sith clearly kidnap.

I don't like how The Acolyte is changing this.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1693436

Can't wait!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1613704

I'm not surprised, but then again, I am a member of this org lmao

include ota btw

I used to use the /r/television sidebar but it isn't very comprehensive. More recently I've been using Wikipedia's 2023 in American Television page, specifically the debuts page, which is good. Some other countries have their own pages, such as South Korea.

Know of any other good places?

It's back and as good as before, the first 10 minutes really shows that this series has the best fight scenes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/922307

This is a spoiler-free review

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Let's start with the obvious: the animation is brilliant. It's MAPPA after all. The production quality on this show is very good, and leaves very little to be desired. Sure, it's not the pinnacle of modern animation, but it's more than serviceable, and it posed no issue whatsoever.

Regardless, this show is very interesting, visually. The characters too, but mostly the environment is totally CRAZY! It's weird, and beautiful, and creepy. The flowers are just stunning, and knowing what they mean in the story just adds a special layer to such stunning visuals.

The voice acting (sub) is great as well, but the general sound design was subpar. I felt like a lot of scenes were very silent, and not in a cool or creepy kinda way, just in a "they didn't know what to put in the background" kinda way... The OP is a TOTAL BANGER though, and it was hard to skip, honestly.

Still, all of this isn't that big of a deal if the plot and the characters make up for it.

But they didn't really.

There's a varied cast with their quirky personalities and origin stories, but they're so poorly explored that that barely matters. The only characters that have any emotional weight are Gabimaru (MC) and Sagiri (MC). To be fair, these two do have very compelling backstories and cool chemistry. The rest of the cast either didn't have enough screen-time for us to truly engage with their stories, or had basically NO backstory at all.

Gabimaru specifically is a very emotional character. His struggle with his up-bringing, with love, family, and freedom is really compelling, and so is Sagiri's struggle with human nature, sexism, and her place in the world.

The plot is just OK. The setup is awesome, and promises a lot of action and adventure with lots of tension and high stakes, but that just ends up not being the case. We spend most of the time watching cool fight scenes. The fight scenes are very cool, sure, but where's the substance? I think a big problem is that Gabimaru is way too strong. His plot armour is just too much...

And the ending... I mean, come on. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE! If they were gonna end the show like this, it should've just been a 24/25 episode release. I know S2 is already in the works, but this season simply felt incomplete.

Well, the show does a lot of things right, and a few things wrong. If more time was spent developing the characters and advancing the plot this would've been way more satisfying. For that reason, I'm still looking forward to the second season.

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Rating: 3/5

Watch on Crunchyroll!
Arr 🏴‍☠️!!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/543614

This is a SPOILER FREE review.

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Horror done PERFECTLY.

"FROM" is creepy, desperate, and hopeful. Every second is crawling with this sense of imminent dread. Time is ticking, and ticking, and ~ticking~... And they can't escape. But they still hope that that might change.

The characters are brilliant. From father Khatri to Boyd to Jim to Jade, they all serve their purpose perfectly, and the more secondary characters also manage to flawlessly push the plot forward, as well as provide some much needed reprieve from the main storyline of the show. Because the main storyline is INTENSE!

The way the different personalities clash and slow things down, beautiful chaos. Even just the dynamic between the town and the colony house! The best part, really, is how much power is in the hands of the people, how much THEY control their life in the town. And how much one person can doom so many others.

Still, my favourite thing about the show is the very clear theme of family. That's what moves everything, they all lost family, and they all found family in that accursed town. I love that.

The audio and the visual are both great. Everything is set up magnificently to give the viewer that rising terror.

The only real criticism I have is the acting. It's not bad, but it's not that great either. I wasn't familiar with any of the actors before watching this show, but I'm not exactly looking forward to what they might do next. Still, it doesn't really take away that much from the show, since they do a good enough job of conveying everything that needs conveying; occasionally they knock it out of the park too.

This season left a lot of mystery to solve; more loose threads than I can count.

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Watch on MGM+!
Arr 🏴‍☠️!!!

I found that thread really useful on Reddit for finding new shows to watch and look into.

For me this week it’s mostly Lucky Hank and need to catch up with Silo. Been quiet week since a load of shows ended.

It was announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that Adult Swim's Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal Season 3 is in production.

Return to BABYLON 5 as the epic interstellar saga continues with THE ROAD HOME. Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe.

How long can this go before studios just pay writers well? Seems very boneheaded, but I'm glad the strike has had a powerful effect.