movies

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.

Themes

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

movies

0354 – Thelma (2017)

spacetime coordinates:  2010’s Norway

Thelma is a Norwegian supernatural thriller film directed by Joachim Trier and starring Eili Harboe.

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Thelma, a Norwegian student with a religious background,  moves to Oslo, where she falls in love with another girl, and soon discovers that her feelings trigger inexplicable powers.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6304046/

series

343 – The Handmaid’s Tale (TV Series 2017– )

spacetime coordinates:  near future. Gilead (former United States)

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The Handmaid’s Tale is an American television series created by Bruce Miller based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/

movies

0335 – Screamers (1995)

spacetime coordinates:  SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078

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Screamers is a 1995 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film starring Peter WellerRoy Dupuis, and Jennifer Rubin, and directed by Christian Duguay. The screenplay, written by Dan O’Bannon with a rewrite by Miguel Tejada-Flores, is based on Philip K. Dick‘s short story “Second Variety“, and addresses themes commonly found in that author’s work: societal conflict, confusion of reality and illusion, and machines turning upon their creators. Although critical reaction to the film was generally negative at the time of its release, it has gained a cult following.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/

documentary, music

323 – Until the Light Takes Us (2008)

until_the_light_takes_usInterviews and news footage explore the rise of black metal music in Norway in the 1990s, including artists who were involved in suicide, murder and arson.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014809/


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