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1921 – Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s Montana wilderness

Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2021 American neo-Western action thriller film directed by Taylor Sheridan based on the novel of the same name by Michael Koryta

The film follows a boy (Finn Little) who witnesses the murder of his father and goes on the run with a smokejumper (Angelina Jolie) in the Montana wilderness to escape a pair of assassins (Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen) hired to silence him; Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, and Jake Weber also star. (wiki)

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1920 – Pig (2021)

spacetime coordinates: late 2010’s Oregon forests /  Portland

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Pig is a 2021 American drama film co-written and directed by Michael Sarnoski in his directorial debut. It stars Nicolas CageAlex Wolff, and Adam Arkin, and follows a truffle forager whose beloved truffle-finding pig goes missing. (wiki)

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1917 – The Swarm / La Nuée (2020)

spacetime coordinates: 2019 farm in south-western France.

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The Swarm (French: La Nuée) is a 2020 French fantasy-horror / drama film directed by Just Philippot. The film stars Suliane Brahim, Sofian Khammes, Marie Narbonne, Raphael Romand and Nathalie Boyer. (wiki)

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1905

Kingdom (TV Series 2019– )

spacetime coordinates: Set during Korea’s Joseon Dynasty, three years after the Imjin War. (the Japanese invasions of Korea 1592–1598 – three years after the famous “Battle of Unpo Wetland”)

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Kingdom (Korean: 킹덤; RR: Kingdeom) is a 2019 South Korean political period horror thriller streaming television series, created and written by Kim Eun-hee and directed by Kim Seong-hun and Park In-je. The series is adapted from the webcomic series The Kingdom of the Gods, which was authored by Kim Eun-hee and drawn by Yang Kyung-il.

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Set on a fictional, medieval-inspired Joseon, Kingdom explores the story of a Crown Prince, as he sets to investigate the source of a mysterious plague that begins to ravage his country. It stars Ju Ji-hoonRyu Seung-ryongBae Doo-naKim Sang-hoKim Sung-kyu and Kim Hye-jun. // wiki // imdb)

A special feature-length episode of the series, titled

Kingdom: Ashin of the North (TV Episode 2021)

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was released on July 23, 2021 and focused on the supporting character Ashin played by Jun Ji-hyun.

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The episode acts as a sidequel to the second season of Kingdom and explores the backstory of Ashin, the mysterious heir of the Northern Seongjeoyain tribe village, and the origin of the resurrection plant that triggered an unprecedented cascade of tragic events that swept through the Kingdom of Joseon. // wiki // imdb

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1898 – The Fear Street Trilogy (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 1994 Shadyside / 1978 Camp Nightwing / 1666 Union

The Fear Street Trilogy is an American horror film series, with varying sub-genres of horror. Directed by Leigh Janiak, from scripts and stories she co-wrote with other contributors, the films are based on R. L. Stine‘s book series of the same name.


Fear Street Part One: 1994

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Fear Street Part Two: 1978

Fear_Street_Part_Two_1978-408600246-largeFear Street Part Two: 1978 is a 2021 American teen slasher film directed by Leigh Janiak. It is the second installment in the Fear Street trilogy, and a sequel to Part One: 1994. Starring Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Ted Sutherland, Gillian JacobsKiana MadeiraBenjamin Flores Jr. and Olivia Scott Welch, the film centers on a group of teenagers in Camp Nightwing who must come together to survive a possessed counselor’s murder spree. imdb

Fear Street Part Three: 1666

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