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0398 – office horror

Mayhem (2017)

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Mayhem is a 2017 American action horror comedy film directed by Joe Lynch.  Rotten Tomatoes‘s critical consensus reads, “Mayhem delivers stylish violence by the bloody bucketful — and grounds all the titular chaos in sharp humor and surprisingly effective real-world economic angst”

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Melanie Cross: My mother used to say that no one raindrop ever thought it caused the flood. I now know what she meant by that.


Office Uprising (2018)

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An employee at a weapons factory discovers that an energy drink turns his co-workers into zombies

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Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

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Bloodsucking Bastards is a 2015 American comedy horror film directed by Brian James O’Connell, written by Ryan Mitts and Dr. God, O’Connell’s comedy group.

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0392 – Dead Leaves (デッド リーブス Deddo Rībusu) – 2004

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Dead Leaves (デッド リーブス Deddo Rībusu) is a 2004 Japanese anime science fiction film produced by animation studio Production I.G.  It is directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi. It is notable for its fast pace and energetic visual style. :p

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Retro and Pandy, two unlikely renegades, awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past, but with superior physical abilities. After embarking on a brief but devastating crime spree for food, clothing and transportation in downtown Tokyo, they are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous prison called Dead Leaves, on the half destroyed moon…

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439533/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Leaves

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387 – I Served the King of England (2006)

spacetime coordinates: Czechoslovakia, 1963 >> 1930’s – 1940’s  Prague

I Served the King of England (Czech: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Czech New Wave master Jiří Menzel, based on the novel I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal. It is Menzel’s sixth adaptation of the works of Hrabal for film.

“A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284363/

animation

0385 – Aachi & Ssipak (2006)

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Aachi & Ssipak is a 2006 animated South Korean film directed by Jo Beom-jin and featuring the voices of Ryoo Seung-bumIm Chang-jung, and Hyun Young.

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Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like “Juicybars” to citizens,which in turn also makes them constipated. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of events involving their porn-director acquaintance Jimmy the Freak, they meet a porn star named Beautiful, who gets a pink ring inside her butt which makes her defecations are rewarded by exceptional quantities of Juicybars. For that reason, Beautiful is also wanted by the violent blue mutants known as the Diaper Gang (led by the Diaper King), the police (most notably the cyborg police officer Geko), and others.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972542/

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0377 – Their Finest (2016)

spacetime coordinates:  1940  London

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Their Finest is a 2016 British war comedy-drama film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Gaby Chiappe, based on the 2009 novel Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans. The film stars Gemma ArtertonSam Claflin and  Bill Nighy and tells the story of a British Ministry of Information film team making a morale-boosting film about the Dunkirk evacuation during the Battle of Britain and the London Blitz.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661275/

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0376 – Railroad Tigers (2016)

spacetime coordinates: East China,  December 1941

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Railroad Tigers is a 2016 Chinese action comedy film directed by Ding Sheng and starring Jackie Chan.  It is about a railroad worker who leads a team of freedom fighters to oppose the Japanese during Second Sino-Japanese War.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687848/

animation

0364 – Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

spacetime coordinates: 2000’s Tokyo

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Tokyo Godfathers (東京ゴッドファーザーズ Tōkyō Goddofāzāzu) is a 2003 Japanese anime comedy-drama film directed by Satoshi Kon loosely based on Peter B. Kyne‘s novel Three Godfathers.

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On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388473/