So when Trump does some stupid shit as normal, what you’re suggesting is they will pull films such as liar liar ?
Or if its trump and hegseth…dumb and dumber gets pulled too?
This runs deeper than we thought.
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The one I particularly remember was The Medusa Touch, which was pulled from schedules after the September 11th attacks. There have been huge lists of media that has been blacklisted for various reasons.
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I watched Friendship the other night. I am a big Tim Robinson fan, but seemingly only in limited doses. I recently finished the Chair Company, a show he did for HBO. It is absolutely fucking nuts in a way that only Robinson can do and I loved it. But the guy he played in this film was essentially the same guy and it just felt like too much.
Apple had a show with Jessica Chastain about someone who investigates online conspiracy nuts causing violence that was due to launch shortly after the Charlie Kirk murder. Almost immediately after the shooting they announced they were delaying it out of sensitivity due to the subject matter being too close to the bone. We’re about 6 months later and there has been no update with most people thinking they are just going to quietly never mention it again and let it rot
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Think this new film will be worth a look:
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The shirt seems apt and spot-on in the present climate eh…
Happy 82th Birthday, Danny Trejo!
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I’m not a huge film buff, but I’m addicted to the aesthetic of these films. Can’t wait for the next installment.
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I disliked Dune 2. It felt like important bits were left on the cutting room floor. But I’ll definitely be in line for #3
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This looks good
Sam Rockwell and McDonagh reuniting?
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This covers the Bombadil chapters. I always felt those were the weakest part of the books, like they were chapters written when he thought the book was about something else and then forget to edit them out.
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Bombadil will be a hard pass from me
Heretic.
Would be near impossible to make it interesting, however Colbert who is known for his incredible writing style, far beyond Tolkien, so just might have a chance.
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I listen to a podcast called “Scarred for Life” which is about popular culture of the 1970s and 80s that inadvertently scared the bejesus out of kids.
One film that keeps getting mentioned is The Plague Dogs, which i read as a kid, but never remember being at the cinema or on Video or TV. Anyway, I gave it a go today:
The book was by Richard Adams, and the film was directed by the same guy who did Watership Down. Needless to say, it’s beautifully animated and a little bit grim. I don’t think they even bothered to promote it as a family film. The BBFC gave it an A rating at the time (equivalent to a PG).
The story is about two dogs that escape a vivisection lab and try to evade the soldiers who are hunting them down, believed to be infected, and aided by a Geordie fox (voiced by James Bolam).
I’m not sure how I missed this at the time, but there were a lot of now classic films released in 1982 that were squeezed commercially at the time.
Anyway, if you like adult animation, I would recommend it. Probably not one for younger kids, though.
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This is one for @Nikola. I stumbled upon a collaboration between Gyllenhal and Villeneuve on Sunday called Enemy, about a bored university professor who realizes he has a Doppleganger and they become obsessed with each other.
It was really interesting but one of those that Im not sure I can I have any idea what it was about or trying to say.
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Yeah, it’s a great one, although very murky - but I started thinking more of what something like that meant to me at a certain point of time/viewing than what the author was trying to say. Twin Peaks taught me that! 
That is a Dead Ringer for a movie with Jeremy Irons - I came away a little disturbed to be honest…
I remember the one where they played identifcal twin gynecologists and that was very fucked up. But I was also about 10 when I saw it
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