0921 – Pandora (2016)

timespace coordinates: 2010’s small South Korean town

Pandora (Hangul: 판도라; RR: Pandora) is a 2016 South Korean disaster film written and directed by Park Jung-woo. Jae-Hyeok (Kim Nam-Gil) struggles to save his family and country from a nuclear meltdown. (rt   /   wiki)   imdb

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“watching the safety of (the) nuclear power plant with my big eyes” — captioning a picture of a small boy making pretend-binoculars with his hands. Fukushima Prefectural Nuclear Power Public Relations Association, 1986, in response to the Chernobyl accident   868

920 – White Boy Rick (2018)

timespace coordinates: 1984 – 1987 DetroitSet during the heyday of the decadent Reagan era, White Boy Rick is the story of an ambitious teenage boy exploited by Uncle Sam, a once-great city in decay, and a nation in the midst of change–a tale of race, class, crime, corruption, and lost innocence that resonates today. (book)

White Boy Rick is a 2018 American biographical crime drama film directed by Yann Demange and written by Andy Weiss, and Logan and Noah Miller. Based on a true story, the film stars Richie Merritt as Richard Wershe Jr., who in the 1980s became the youngest FBI informant ever at the age of 14. Matthew McConaughey, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, Bruce Dern, and Piper Laurie also star. (wiki)

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919 – The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

timespace coordinates: 1981 Texas

The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 American biographical film written and directed by David Lowery, based on the true-life story of Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and prison escape artist. The script is based on David Grann‘s 2003 article in The New Yorker titled “The Old Man and the Gun”, which was later collected in Grann’s 2010 book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. It stars Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits and Sissy Spacek. It is Redford’s final role, as he announced his intent to retire from acting in August 2018 (wiki)According to David Lowery, the final montage of Forrest Tucker is like a summary of Robert Redford’s career. It is as if “all those escapes almost feel like it’s like you’re listing the movies he’s made”. (imdb)

0918 – The Drop (2014)

timespace coordinates: 2010s Brooklyn

The Drop is a 2014 American crime film directed by Michaël R. Roskam, from a screenplay written by Dennis Lehane. The film is based on Lehane’s 2009 short story “Animal Rescue”. Lehane also adapted the script into a 2014 novel of The Drop. The film stars Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini (in his final film role), with Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz and James Frecheville in supporting roles. (wiki)

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The Hungarian National Film Archive has made available dozens of vintage animated shorts, commercials, and even feature films on its Vimeo page, but only for a limited period of time. The collection is available through the holidays and will be taken offline January 4, 2019. (via www.cartoonbrew.com)

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916 – Nuclear Throne (2015 video game)

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not ‘the final hope of humanity’ post-apocalyptic, but ‘humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world’ post-apocalyptic. Fight your way through the wastelands with powerful weaponry, collecting radiation to mutate some new limbs and abilities. All these things and more you could do if only you were good at this game. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne? (steam)

Nuclear Throne is a top-down shooter roguelike video game by Vlambeer. Early prototypes of the game were distributed through Steam’s early access program in 2013. Nuclear Throne was released on December 5, 2015, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita platforms, with an Xbox One release due in the future. (wiki)

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS – MINIMUM: OS: Windows XP / Processor: 1.2Ghz+ / Memory: 1024 MB RAM / Graphics: 256MB / Storage: 200 MB available space / Additional Notes: This game is locked to 30 frames per second.

 

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