2011 – The French Dispatch (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 20th-century (~50’s – 60’s) French city Ennui-sur-Blasé

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a 2021 American anthology comedy film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. The film features a large ensemble cast, and follows three different storylines as the French foreign bureau of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper creates its final issue.

The first segment, “The Concrete Masterpiece”, follows an incarcerated and unstable artist, and stars Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, and Léa Seydoux. The second, “Revisions to a Manifesto”, is inspired by the May 68 student protests, and stars Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, and Lyna Khoudri. “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” features Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, and Stephen Park, and follows the kidnapping of a police commisioner’s son. Bill Murray also stars as Arthur Howitzer Jr., the paper’s editor, while Owen Wilson appears in a short segment that introduces the film’s fictional setting of Ennui-sur-Blasé. (wiki)

During the ending credits some covers of The French Dispatch through its history are shown. They were created by Spanish illustrator Javi Aznarez and were loosely inspired in The New Yorker’s covers.

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2007 – Night Teeth (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 2020. a night of party-hopping across LA.

Night Teeth is a 2021 American vampire thriller film directed by Adam Randall. It stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raul Castillo, Megan Fox, and Alfie Allen. (wiki)

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1993 – Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 1996 > 2024  San Francisco

Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a 2021 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom, it is the second film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and the sequel to Venom (2018). The film is directed by Andy Serkis from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel, based on a story she wrote with Tom Hardy who stars as Eddie Brock / Venom alongside Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and Woody Harrelson.

In the film, Brock struggles to adjust to life as the host of the alien symbiote Venom, while serial killer Cletus Kasady (Harrelson) escapes from prison after becoming the host of Carnage, a chaotic spawn of Venom.  The film was primarily inspired by the comic book story arc “Maximum Carnage” (1993) and the 1994 Spider-Man animated series story arc The Venom Saga (1996).

In August 2018, Hardy confirmed that he was signed on to star in a third Venom film. In September 2021, Hardy stated that he was “deeply invested” in the Venom films, while acknowledging that the future may include elements of the multiverse. Serkis also stated that Spider-Man will eventually cross over with the Venom films, though he believed there were additional films that needed to take place first, and that he would like to return as director on a sequel, while that other supervillain residents of Ravencroft may factor into additional films. Hardy and Serkis also expressed interest in featuring the symbiote dragon Grendel in the third Venom film. (wiki)

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1989 – Black Friday (2021)

spacetime coordinates:  2020 in Boston, Massachusetts

Black Friday is an American horror comedy film directed by Casey Tebo. It stars Devon Sawa, Ivana Baquero, Ryan Lee, Stephen Peck, Michael Jai White, and Bruce Campbell (who serves as producer). (wiki)

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ELDEN RING – steam

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Dying Light 2 Stay Human – steam

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1964 – Untitled Earth Sim 64 (Short 2021)

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1960 – Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

spacetime coordinates: In a region in Japan devastated and quarantined years ago in an accident in which highly volatile nuclear waste was spilled after a crash between the waste transport and a prison bus, a settlement called Samurai Town is ruled by an unscrupulous Governor who has blended elements of Japanese society (both modern-day and pre-modern) and the old American West together at his whim, and is keeping a harem of adopted “granddaughters” as his sex slaves. The outside is a wasteland known as the Ghostland, inhabited by half-crazed outcasts and victims of the irradiated environment.

Prisoners of the Ghostland is a 2021 Japanese/American neo-noir Western action film directed by Sion Sono (first overseas production and English-language debut), from a script by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes and Bill Moseley.  (wiki)

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