Trailer

Hollywood Starlet Jodie Foster was a comedy star in her early years. She's returned to star in a cop TV show on HBO.

!Chuds will be mad because it will be too woke for them and Jodie's a lesbian. !nonchuds will be mad because cops are the good guys like in real life. !jidf will be mad because Jodie's BFF's with noted antisemite Mel Gibson.

20:00 boomer nairaland panics at his kid calling him at the bingo Hall. Forces them to hang up to get back playing lmao !besties

End of an era. The greatest comedy TV show of all time is coming to an end after 24 years.

!g*mers

Slop is on the menu

Just watched this on Tubi. Reddit hated it, which is proof it's good.

After a period of estrangement, a man named Nick visits his conservative family for the holidays, bringing along his Indian doctor gf Anji. At home we meet the frosty, taciturn father; the warm but clueless mother; the deeply insecure r-slur sister and her deeply insecure r-slur boyfriend; and the half-senile grandpa who mocks everyone while throwing around racial invective.

Overnight, the house is inexplicably sealed off from the world by a black metallic membrane covering all doors and windows. Despite the bizarre situation, Nick's father quickly convinces himself that this is being done by "the authorities" for their own good because of a virus and/or terror attack. The dad appoints himself their leader and enforces a series of progressively stranger orders which are transmitted via text on the television. Paranoia builds, and those who question the orders face increasing retaliation from the entity and the rest of the family, which eventually grows violent.

For this movie to work correctly, you need to accept early-on that all characters and events are part of a heightened reality. Everyone's kind of a caricature because they depict what things feel like, not exactly what they are. Most especially, the dad is a grotesque parody of the "stiff upper lip" British masculine ideal, seemingly calm, rational, and unflappable--yet following increasingly nonsensical and vile commands in service of the "authorities." His performance is a highlight of the film, and a good illustration of the Bong desire to lick boot.

It can be hard to capture what exactly makes a horror movie scary, but I found the whole movie extremely tense in the best way. Despite the exaggeration of certain characters, the presentation itself has enough restraint to keep you immersed in the situation. You're a normal person trapped in a house with a bunch of bong NPCs, and they're starting to suspect you. The violence is never grotesque but always uncomfortable, and when special effects at last come into play they manage to feel like a surreal nightmare instead of a blobby CGI climax. Through it all there's a sense of actual threat. The best comparison I can make is that it's like if Skinamarink was like an actual movie with dialogue and actors and stuff, instead of a 5-minute student film inflated to 90 boring minutes.

Now, here's what I've been dancing around:

It's an extremely on-the-nose parody of the Covid pandemic despite coming out in 2018.

( Predictive programming?)

• The characters are suddenly locked in their home by an "authority" and unable to leave

• Orders are transmitted in the language of quarantine, contamination, etc.

• Orders are increasingly authoritarian and hostile

• Characters are told that objects around them may be contaminated

• Characters are sent "trial vaccination kits" and ordered to take them

• The only character with medical training says not to take the vaccines as they do not know what is in them (and the needles are dirty). The sister is worried the vaccine will hurt her unborn baby

• The dad forces everyone else to take the jabs anyway.

• Immediately after taking the vaccine, one character starts coughing up black bile and dies

• After a moment of confusion the father says that it would have happened to ALL of them if they weren't vaccinated ( it's too blatant)

• The characters are ordered to "isolate" Anji, locking her in a room alone because she had a little cough earlier

• The sister later needs urgent medical attention, but the father insists no one even TRY to leave.

• As the situation worsens, people die because of violence, lack of medical care, and quarantine protocols, while whatever they are being "protected" from never actually shows up.

• The dad refuses to look at Nick's video proof of the entity responsible because it is on his phone, instead of airing on television from the "authorities"

• In general, even seemingly normal characters prioritize "quarantine" orders from a faceless outside entity over love for their own family, while punishing those who disagree.

• Eventually the TV turns into a giant wire monster that puppeteers the dad's fresh corpse around the house (I don't think this has happened yet but check back on /r/zerocovidcommunity in a couple months).

Four people stuck at a diner on Christmas Eve discover it's exactly where they need to be in the new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie.

It's quite rare to see a Hallmark movie that doesn't have some element of romance to it. Almost all of the films on Hallmark Channel are rom-coms. Some may be family drama, but usually there's still a romantic factor woven in. Over on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, many of the mysteries are solved by two people that ultimately have romantic ties to one another. In Heaven Down Here, the latest Miracles of Christmas film on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, the intertwining stories are about family and friends with nary a romantic kiss to be seen.

What is Heaven Down Here about?

Four disparate people find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm hits the town.

• Imani (Krystal Joy Brown) is a widowed mother of two who's having trouble making ends meet and reluctantly agrees to work the Christmas Eve shift, where she clashes with her boss Dan (Richard Harmon), who doesn't exactly embody the Christmas spirit.

• Felix (Juan Riedinger) is a local pastor desperately trying to secure food to feed parishioners in need on Christmas while his faith is challenged by his broken relationship with his son.

• Clara (Tina Lifford) is a hospice nurse with an obstinate patient Nancy (Phylicia Rashad) and whose daughter is moving away, which causes her to question her place in this world.

Throughout the evening, these four bicker, bond and unwittingly provide each other with the answer to their respective prayers.

Is Heaven Down Here based on a book?

Not quite! Heaven Down Here is inspired by Mickey Guyton's song of the same name.

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I hope everyone else is looking forward to this movie. I know hallmark movies aren't everyone's favorites but I love a good Christmas movie and hope yall give this one a sure shot.

Thanks!

!boozers

The first trailer for Alex Garland’s ‘CIVIL WAR’, starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Jesse Plemons.

In theaters on April 26. pic.twitter.com/FLNXvVW7zU

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 13, 2023

The trailer for A24’s ‘HAZBIN HOTEL’ has been released.

Releasing January 19 on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/hXijlVLbQp

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 13, 2023

if you look at the replies and quote tweets literally 90% of them are "oh my god this is so bad its just like the memes said it would be"

now i dont really know anything about hazbin hotel except seeing it occasionally mentioned on the internet but i watched this trailer and it looks about as i imagined it would look like

so why are its fans mad

theres a guy on this site who sometimes links to /co/ threads so if youre reading this i assume you know what the deal is spill the beans

Re-upload

Got some keks out of me

I have to admit everything he lays out makes perfect sense. It does mean that 100% of the movie is a delusion with Jack / The Narrator (who's real name is Tyler Durden) living out his multiple personalities mostly in a hotel room outside of going to some cancer therapy groups.

Tl;dw

• Jack is diagnosed with testicular cancer and his psyche cracks at the prospect of losing his balls

• Hes not at the doctor to get sleeping pills, the doctor instead refer him to cancer support groups to cope with his ball cancer

• Jack invents three new personalities Tyler (masculine), Marla (feminine) and Big Tit Bob (what he fears he may become after his balls are removed)

• Jack's real name is Tyler Durden as evident on the plane tickets he gets from his work

• There is no Paper Street house (why would a phone company install a working telephone in an abandoned house?)

• There is no fight club and no project mayhem. It's all imagined.

Anticlimactic but all the pieces fit. Unless I mis remembered something.

Bottom text.

This is a remake of La Femme Nikita except in English. I must be really clever because I just turned the channel to it not having any idea what it was and I figured it out pretty fast. And I kept thinking it's remarkable how well they emulated everything about Luc Besson and didn't realize it was actually made by him until the credits.

It's in an uncanny valley where a lot of stuff is a realistic depiction of how spies would operate in the 1980s. But then there's the silliness of the KGB & CIA running around killing massive numbers of people in Europe like it's a John Woo movie, which neither side did back then. And there's weird visual stuff like using 2010s computers. I guess that was because zoomers won't understand what's happening if they saw a DOS program. So the whole thing gives off a really odd vibe where it's halfway between James Bond and The Assets. I can accept this kind of weirdness but only if it's in French.

The action scenes are good. Clearly FPS inspired. It's like watching someone who's got talent and 10,000 hours in it playing Battlefield. Pacing is good. The actress is really cute and does a good job at what her role is.

But what her role is...

She's a Luc Besson movie protagonist. So she seems to be an empowered woman on the surface. Omg she's so badass! She can shoot guys! But internally she's a weak hollow person who is basically a sociopath. She has no soul.

Why does he write female characters like this? It's because he's a sicko. Why is 13 year old Nathalie Portman in Leon constantly demanding to have s*x with the guy? It's because Luc Besson fricks 13 year old girls. He's a vile child molester who really hates women and it seeps through into his writing. He sees them basically as animals and sexuality as a way of using other people or being used.

But he's really good at making movies, I can't deny that. For a good one, I recommend The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. It's based on a preexisting character so he can't impose his sick fetishes. And she rides a pterodactyl through fin de siecle Paris.

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