2025 – Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a 2021 American supernatural comedy film that was directed by Jason Reitman. The film, which stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Rudd, Logan Kim, and Celeste O’Connor, is the sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and the fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise.

Thirty-two years after the events of Ghostbusters II, the Ghostbusters have disbanded and their legacy is mostly forgotten. After a single mother and her children move to an Oklahoma farm they inherited from her estranged father, whom they discover was once a Ghostbuster who went on a mission to prevent an apocalypse. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver appear in supporting roles, reprising their characters from the earlier films. The film is posthumously dedicated to Harold Ramis, who is commemorated in the closing credits. (wiki)

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2013 – Swan Song (2021)

spacetime coordinates: near future Canada

Swan Song is a 2021 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Benjamin Cleary and produced by Mahershala Ali, Rebecca Bourke and Jonathan King. Set in the near future, Ali portrays a husband and father who is diagnosed with terminal illness but is given a new solution: to replace himself with a clone. The film also stars Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, Glenn Close and Adam Beach. (wiki)

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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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2009 – Beforeigners (TV Series 2019– )

spacetime coordinates: season 1 takes place in 2019 Oslo, where sudden flashes of light appear in the bay in Bjørvika. People from different time periods—the Stone Age, Viking Age, and the 19th century—suddenly appear in the present. 

Beforeigners is a Norwegian sci-fi buddy cop series created and written by Eilif Skodvin and Anne Bjørnstad and directed by Jens Lien. The main protagonists are Lars (Nicolai Cleve Broch), an Oslo police detective, and Alfhildr (Krista Kosonen), a Viking-era recruit, who investigate the murder of a Stone Ager. (wiki)

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2005 – Belfast (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 1969 – 1970 Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast is a 2021 coming of age drama written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film stars Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan, and newcomer Jude Hill. The film, which Branagh has described as his “most personal film”, centres on a young boy’s childhood amidst The Troubles of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the 1960s. (wiki)

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1988 – Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002)

spacetime coordinates / Synopsis: 2010. Meguro City, Tokyo, Cat Earth, a world of corporations and commercialism, where a giant mechanical Colonel Sanders wanders the streets with an axe embedded in its head, loudly advertising the restaurant. Tamala, bored with the city, leaves her home against the wishes of her human mother and flies away in a personal spaceship bound for her birthplace, Orion. Her ship is shot down by the Mysterious Postcat, and lands on the outskirts of Hate City on the Planet Q

TAMALA 2010: A Punk Cat in Space is a 2002 Japanese animated film written, directed and featuring music by the two-person team t.o.L (“trees of Life”), known individually as K. and kuno. The film features both 2D and 3D computer animation, and is mostly black-and-white. The characters, designed by t.o.L and Kentarō Konpon, are reminiscent of Sanrio‘s Hello Kitty and 1960s anime and manga such as Astro Boy. The creators admit that one of the film’s central plot points, about a cult operating as a postal service and corporate monopoly, is influenced and adapted from Thomas Pynchon‘s novel The Crying of Lot 49.

TAMALA2010 was originally envisioned as the first episode of a trilogy – the latter two parts were given the working titles TAMALA IN ORION (which would chronicle Tamala’s search for her real mother) and TATLA (which was to explore the character of Tatla in greater depth). A colour TV series was also planned, with the working title TAMALA IN SPACE. As of 2020, none of these has surfaced – instead there have been two shorter works, the t.o.L written and directed TAMALA ON PARADE

and TAMALA’S “WILD PARTY“

–two short stories from different writers, storyboarded and directed by Shūichi Kohara and animated by Studio 4°C. Both of these are included on the TAMALA ON PARADE DVD, released in Japan in August 2007. This DVD does not have English subtitles.

 A sequel named TAMALA 2030: A PUNK CAT IN DARK has been under production since 2019. (wiki)

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Wake up!! TAMALA (english subtitles)

t.o.L collaboration with the WWF Japan

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TAMALA 2010 OST – happy prince

1985 – Cast Away (2000)

spacetime coordinates: 1995 – 1999 Memphis, Tennessee > Uninhabited Island in the South Pacific

Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. (wiki)

Farm house with windmill.

Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away–type television series at a dinner party in 2003. Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea. The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost.

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