Have you tried rutracker? While it’s unlikely to have regional documentaries, they do have more niche b-movies and some documentaries.

mvgroup

Is pretty good for docs, albeit often many releases have no more seeders.

Haha, what a bunch of scumbags. They can"t even seed back when pirating.

We really need to round up all of Meta’s executive directors, seize all their assets (every last cent) and require them to do mandatory two decade live-in community service as junior custodians (the lowest level custodians in the whole institution) at hospice centres or infectious disease hospitals. De-mining work and resource extraction junior support would also be good options for community service work.

Not for this of course, more like knowingly enabling genocide in Myanmar and so on.

The 90s Street Fighter movie is the bomb.

https://livetv.sx/enx/

I quit after the first episode when I realized it’s not really based on Tolkien’s work and it wasn’t going to be a novel and unique concept.

I agree The Silmarillion is rather dry and somewhat convoluted. But the main story offers a lot of potential for epic story telling. Setting the story in Numenor could also offer a lot of potential.

Thanks for sharing. I generally focus on horror, scifi and crime thrillers for my Japanese cinema, but this looks intriguing enough.

I don’t think it’s solely a matter of having a “TikTok-brain”.

I don’t use Tik-Tok (never have) and I did not like The Rings of Power. I would have much preferred if they adapted the main story in The Silmarillion; Quenta Silmarillion. Instead they came up with a generic “made for streaming with minimal inspiration from a literary work for marketing purposes” concept.

This stuff is wild. Difficult to label it as anything other than degeneracy.

I highly doubt this will be good. As others have mentioned they’ll probably just use the name and make some random BS story.

The story / writing is pretty bold too. It’s nothing new by modern standards, but it was probably relatively novel in 1982.

I like Terminator 1 a lot more than T2.

It’s much more grim-dark with horror elements. I would even go as far as saying there are subtle cyberpunk motifs in T1. There is also a modicum of character development. Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese) does a great job.

T2 feels more like a teen’s summer action movie in comparison. It lacks that edge and is overly sentimental.

I will note that growing up I liked T2 a lot more than T1.

I decided to skip Joker 2 once I heard it was a musical (and then I heard the reviews were bad).

You got me curious about Phoenix’s singing so I looked up some clips on YouTube.

You were right, it’s not good. Not good at all.

These just seem like a bunch of kids’ movies. I remember watching some cartoons on VHS again and again, like ~20 times a year.

Hopefully this is good.

I think a prequel is a better setup for a series than anything in the current continuity.

I really liked Fargo (the series), so Noah Hawley’s involved is a good thing in my book.

I am not going to get into the drama around Oscar nominations, however, I will disagree with Brolin that Part II was the better film.

I am a huge Dune fan (have read all the Frank Herbert Dune books, have read Dune and Dune Messiah at least 10 times and have read the others books in the series several times).

Part I was relatively focused and was an excellent representation of the introductory part of the book. Part II simply did too many things at the same time. I spoke to many people who watched the (new) movies, but never read the book and they found many components of Part II to be a bit confusing.

Honestly, they should have gone with a trilogy. Dune is basically written as a 3 act book. The intro which Part I captures perfectly. Paul Atreides and Jessica Atreides’ integration into Fremen society is the second act. And the third act culminates with the resolution of the narrative.

Part II is a great film, just it could have been better if it was split into two.

It seems they get enough viewership to make it financially viable.

I actually think this is a fair take and I see where you’re coming from. There is definitely a certain type for “streaming service sci-fi” shows and Silo falls into it. I had the same reaction to “Man in the High Castle” and I decided to skip The Rings of Power and Foundation because of this.

I am a huge fan of FO1/FO2 (and New Vegas), but I’ve given up on the franchise otherwise (there are better modern alternatives).

I guess with Silo it helped that I never read the novels. I can’t watch shows that butcher the core concept of my favourite novels. I am also curious about the lore. On the bright side, I did start reading the Silo books.

Long-time Ars reader/subscriber here. They’re a pretty source for English language tech news. I am particularly fond of their reporting on tech adjacent public policy issues (US centrism notwithstanding).

One area where they are weak is taking a critical look at Apple. They keep promoting the notion that Apple is somehow different.

They did report on Apple’s censorship of steaming content on AI (due to the upcoming release of Apple intelligence) and critiques of the CCP, but beyond the initial reporting it’s like nothing happened.

They all use Apple products, nothing wrong with that they have excellent products, but you would think that a tech news site would have at least one or two journalists who use Windows/Android/Linux full time.

It’s almost as if they need a “hero company” in their lives and can’t deal with the notion that all these tech megacorps are the same; sketchy, dishonest and corrupt.