games

1698 – Party Hard (2015 video game)

timespace coordinates: the storyline focuses on Detective John West’s detailing of the Party Hard Killings of autumn, 2000. [San Francisco County, North Beach (Salinas, California), ranch party in Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Bay City, Texas, Miami Florida > Salina, Kansas, rooftop pool party at DenverColorado, Halloween party in Wyoming. campus party in Salt Lake City, Utah, party in the San Francisco subway.]

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Party Hard is an action stealth video game developed by Pinokl Games and published by tinyBuild for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. A mobile port, Party Hard Go, was released for Fire OS, iOS, and Android. In the game, players assume the role of a serial killer who infiltrates several parties with the objective of killing all attendants without getting caught. (wiki)

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games, movies

1689 – Boss Level (2020)

Boss Level is an american science fiction action film written and directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Frank GrilloMel GibsonMichelle Yeoh and Naomi Watts.

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Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo), a retired special forces soldier finds himself trapped in a sinister government program, which results in a never-ending time loop leading to his death. (wiki)

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movies

1687 – Greenland (2020)

timespace coordinates: 2019 Atlanta, Georgia >  Upstate New York > Greenland

1602240870680Greenland is a 2020 American disaster film directed by Ric Roman Waugh. The film stars Gerard Butler (who also co-produced), Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd and Scott Glenn.. The film follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet races to Earth. (wiki)

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games, movies, music

1685 – Hardcore Henry (2015)

timespace coordinates: near-future Moscow

Hardcore Henry (Russian: Хардкор; also known simply as Hardcore in some countries)  is a 2015 Russian-American science fiction action film written and directed by Ilya Naishuller (in his feature directorial debut).

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It stars Sharlto CopleyDanila KozlovskyHaley Bennett, and Tim Roth. Henry was played by 10 different stuntmen and cameramen including the director Ilya Naishuller, Darya Charusha, who plays a dominatrix biker, is also the film’s composer.

Max Nicholson of IGN rated the film 8.6/10 stating “Two parts FPS, one part platformer and a pinch of HowToBasic, director Ilya Naishuller’s Hardcore Henry is a recipe for non-stop, ludicrous fun. While the film’s actual story is nigh existent [sic], it’s sure to please gamers and action junkies alike with its inventive set pieces and mind-boggling action” and “Hardcore Henry lives up to the title with non-stop, off-the-wall action and a love for all things video games”. (wiki)

The video game Payday 2 had a cross-promotion before the movie’s release. It came with heists relating to the film’s plot, along with a new playable character (Jimmy) and new weapons. A poster for the game can be seen on wall of the one of the apartments where Slick Dimitri is found and Jimmy’s mask from the game can be seen in the drawer with the weapons in the strip club.

Before this film, writer and director Ilya Naishuller made several music videos for his Russian punk rock band “Biting Elbows”. The videos were shot in the same style: Fast paced, first person perspective action videos.

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movies

1681 – Planeta bur (1962)

timespace coordinates: 1960’s. the first human landing on Venus

Planeta Bur (Russian: Планета Бурь) is a 1962 Sovcolor Soviet science-fiction film scripted by Alexander Kazantsev from his novel, and co-scripted and directed by Pavel Klushantsev. 

In English, the film is often informally referred to as Planet of the StormsPlanet of StormsPlanet of TempestsPlaneta Burg, and Storm Planet, though it was never actually released in the US in its original form until the 1990s, via home video. It is better known to American audiences via two American television movies which featured special effects and most of the primary footage from it: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. (wiki)

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movies

1680 – Sobibor (2018)

timespace coordinates: The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Jewish-Soviet soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor death camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. In just three weeks, Pechersky was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi death camp.

Sobibor (Russian: Собибор) is a 2018 Russian war drama film co-written, directed by and starring Konstantin Khabensky. The picture also stars Christopher Lambert and was released on 3 May 2018 in Russia. (wiki)

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