Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Eastern European Movies in English Online

Watch online Eastern European Movies with English Subs

easterneuropeanmovies.com

 

[detrius]

The 80s really are back.

Back and improved.

'She-Ra and the Princesses of Power' is the rarest of television feats | CNN

Writing movingly as a queer parent seeking diverse and relatable content for her family, Lindsey Mantoan pens a love letter to the show that has answered that need: "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power," the reboot of the 1980s cartoon franchise whose fifth and final season recently came to Netflix.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Noodles]

I think I now get HBO Max free through work, but there doesn't seem to be a FireTV app so I can't really use it.

I wanted to watch all these Studio Ghibli movies... :/

 

[Caete]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop

For every Game Of Thrones, there’s a Marco Polo. What are the human costs of a show that disappears without trace?

www.theguardian.com

 

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‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop

For every Game Of Thrones, there’s a Marco Polo. What are the human costs of a show that disappears without trace?

www.theguardian.com

I liked Marco Polo, but that's because it was a lovely to look at soap opera mess of a show. When it didn't return, I didn't miss it.

Sometimes shows suck and they fail to capture an audience because of it. That has never changed.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Back and improved.

'She-Ra and the Princesses of Power' is the rarest of television feats | CNN

Writing movingly as a queer parent seeking diverse and relatable content for her family, Lindsey Mantoan pens a love letter to the show that has answered that need: "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power," the reboot of the 1980s cartoon franchise whose fifth and final season recently came to Netflix.

edition.cnn.com

I remember all the people hating on this show when it was first announced literally because the teenaged main character's tits weren't big enough.

 

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I watched the Netflix film The Old Guard last night.



It was OK. At least I didn't feel like I wasted 2 hours watching it. Charlize Theron was great. Bad guy was depressingly one dimensional, but not sure what else you can expect from a movie about near-immortal warriors fighting a corporation. Mostly ended up like I expected it would, with a few tweaks. Twist right at the end seems to set up a sequel.

 

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Ooh ooh ooh yes please!

Netflix Is Turning Usagi Yojimbo Into an Animated Series

Stan Sakai’s legendary rabbit ronin is finally getting an animated series of his own after decades and decades of comic book adventures across Edo Japan. But the new series seems like it’ll contain a few interesting twists.

io9.gizmodo.com

Deadline reports that Sakai will produce the CG animated series with Gaumont, Dark Horse Entertainment, and James Wan’s Atomic Monster (Wan will be one of several executive producers alongside Sakai) for Netflix. Titled Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, the show will not actually follow the titular Miyamoto Usagi, the protagonist Sakai first created back in 1984. Instead, Samurai Rabbit will follow one of Usagi’s descendants, a teenage rabbit named Yuichi who strives to become a samurai like his legendary ancestor.

Sounds interesting.

 

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Huh?

‘Rodham’: Sarah Treem Adapting Hillary Clinton Fictional Novel as Hulu Series

Hulu continues to explore the world of Hillary Clinton. The streamer is teaming with The Affair co-creator Sarah Treem to adapt Curtis Sittenfeld's best-selling novel Rodham as a scripted dram…

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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The shift to streaming may have begun.

Comcast lost 477,000 cable-TV customers in Q2 amid 12% drop in revenue

Broadband is up but TV revenue dropped 3.2%, and overall revenue is down 11.7%.

arstechnica.com

 

[Fionalein]

Back and improved.

that remains to be seen

She-Ra would never fly today without a heapload of nostalgia...

The new She-Ra seems younger and with less skimpy outfits to avoid sexualisation - but will she be able to escape her past incarnation? Many of the fans coming from nostalgia won't admit it, but will surely not like those changes (not saying there are not some who will welcome them, but nostalgia does usually not work that way).

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

OwO what's this?

 

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OwO what's this?

I've been waiting for this with some apprehension. I mean... yay, Lovecraft, and yay, representation, but putting them together? There are so many ways this can go horribly wrong.

Lovecraft was basically a nazi. His monsters were a direct manifestation of his racism. It's hard not to look at his work through this lens.

So when you put black people in lovecraftian horror like this... on one hand, they could totally ignore Lovecraft as a person, and whitewash him and his work, making it paletable, and hiding the racism, which I don't like. Or, they could put the racism in, potentially causing a massive controversy and getting cancelled if they do it badly. The show is just based on Lovecraft, so maybe race isn't as big a deal, since it's not actually a story written by Lovecraft. Maybe it is? IDK.

There's a balance they might strike here, though, so I'm definitely going to watch it to see how it turns out. Maybe they will do it just right. I'm going to withhold judgement until it comes out. It will be interesting to see what my black friends think about it.

I just hope it's not shallow.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

No no....in this particular story, race is a very big deal. This show is based on a novel from a few years back that is set in the Jim-Crow-era, and the racism faced by the black protagonist and his family is kind of intentionally juxtaposed against the Lovecraftian horrors they also face.

 

[Free]

Yup.

 

[Isabeau]

I watched the Netflix film The Old Guard last night.



It was OK. At least I didn't feel like I wasted 2 hours watching it. Charlize Theron was great. Bad guy was depressingly one dimensional, but not sure what else you can expect from a movie about near-immortal warriors fighting a corporation. Mostly ended up like I expected it would, with a few tweaks. Twist right at the end seems to set up a sequel.

I watched it last night and enjoyed it. I hope there’s a follow up movie. Not sure why it got bad reviews, it’s mindless action fun and I liked all the characters.

 

[Ann Launay]

Anybody watching Wynonna Earp season 4? Definite spoilers in the article if you aren't caught up.

How Wynonna Earp, and Its Loyal Fans, Broke the Internet

 

[Isabeau]

Raised by Wolves Trailer: Ridley Scott's SciFi TV Debut Is Here

When director Ridley Scott does anything, we take notice. When he does something sci-fi, we get excited. And when he directs a sci-fi television show we can watch in a few short weeks? We damn near froth at the mouth.

io9.gizmodo.com

 

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