games

1573 – Football Game (2018 video game)

spacetime coordinates: East Bend, Purchase County. 1987.
You are Tommy, a local high school football hero in the town of East Bend. It’s game night for the Purchase County Turbines and your sweetheart is waiting in the bleachers.

However, something is amiss… 


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series, Uncategorized

1465 – Lodge 49 (TV Series 2018-)

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timespace coordinates: AMC describes the series as a “modern fable set in Long Beach, California about a disarmingly optimistic local ex-surfer, Dud (Wyatt Russell), who’s drifting after the death of his father and collapse of the family business.” In the first season, Dud joins a fraternal order known as the Order of the Lynx, hoping the Lodge can put him “on the path to recover the idyllic life he’s lost.”

Lodge 49 is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jim Gavin. It aired on the television network AMC in the United States from August 6, 2018, to October 14, 2019, spanning two seasons and 20 episodes.

The title alludes to the novella The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, which Gavin references as an inspiration. (wiki)

www.lynxlodge49.com

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documentary, series

1449 – Décolonisations (Documentary | TV Series 2019– )

A history of decolonization, told through the colonized point of view, in 3 chapters: ‘Learning’, ‘Liberation’ and ‘The world is ours’

Director : Karim Miské

Available from 07/01/2020 to 07/03/2020 on ARTE in English – Arte TV
movies

1394 – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)

timespace coordinates: 1969 Los Angeles

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It features a large ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprioBrad PittMargot RobbieEmile HirschMargaret QualleyTimothy OlyphantAustin ButlerDakota FanningBruce Dern, and Al Pacino. The film follows an actor and his stunt double, as they navigate the changing film industry, and features “multiple storylines in a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age” (wiki)

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movies, series

1381 – Deadwood (TV Movie 2019)

timespace coordinates: 1889, DeadwoodSouth Dakota

Deadwood: The Movie is a 2019 American television drama film directed by Daniel Minahan and written by David Milch for HBO. It is a continuation of the television series of the same name, which ran for three seasons from 2004 to 2006. The film reunites the majority of the large ensemble cast, including Timothy OlyphantIan McShaneMolly ParkerPaula MalcomsonJohn Hawkes, and Gerald McRaney, and premiered on May 31, 2019. (wiki)

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animation, documentary, games, Uncategorized

1376 – Atari: Game Over (2014 documentary)

81o+xuDPMRL._RI_A crew digs up all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s. (imdb)

Atari: Game Over is a 2014 documentary film directed by Zak Penn about the North American video game crash of 1983, using the Atari video game burial excavation as a starting point. Eurogamer called it “one of the best films about gaming this year and should be seen by anyone with an interest in the medium’s early wild west years.” (wiki)


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