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Hundreds gather for vigil honoring Renee Good outside Milwaukee ICE facility


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Milwaukee vigil honors Minneapolis women murdered by ICE.

Milwaukee, WI – In response to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE agents, over 350 people gathered for an emergency vigil, January 7, outside of the ICE Enforcement and Removal offices at 310 E Knapp Street. Emotions ran high as community leaders spoke out against the newest round of raids in Minnesota, calling for ICE out of everywhere.

“We’re building something broad and we have a united front,” said Alan Chavoya of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). “Elected officials, community grassroots organizations, faith leaders. That’s who’s here today. We have the movement of everyone.”

This included a strong presence of the labor movement at the vigil. Pam Fendt from the Milwaukee Area Labor Council (MALC) said, “The influx of ICE and Border Patrol agents into American cities is doing anything but making us safer. ICE actions are taking good workers away from local companies and farms. They’re tearing families apart.”

“We are the quality control for law enforcement,” said Nat Godley of Milwaukee Turners Legal Observers. “We make sure they are operating as they are supposed to constitutionally, legally. Not as those ICE agents behaved in Minneapolis today. We must be vigilant, and we must be active. There is no more time for quiet bystanders.”

The determined crowd that gathered made chants of “I-C-E out of M-K-E” and “¡Sí se puede!” while picketing outside of the ICE field office. This effort was put on by several Milwaukee community and grassroots organizations including Voces de la Frontera, Milwaukee Turners, and the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

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This is a totally normal selection of films to watch in a week, right?

Death Rides a Horse (1967)
In the Tall Grass (2019)
Deterrence (1999)
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
The Rainbow (1989)
Censor (2021)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Wavelength (1967)
<---> (aka Back and Forth, 1969)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Alphaville (1965)

"Deterrence" really sucked. "<--->" was a lot harder to watch than "Wavelength" (both experimental from same director). "Censor" may be my favorite of these.

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A perfectly reasonable number and assortment of films to watch in a week.

The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Ice (1970)
Homework (1982)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Resident Evil (2002)
The Black Room (1982)
Civil War (2024)

"Osterman", the final film of Sam Peckinpah is a mess. I wanted to like "Ice" but it's so deeply 60s and then foregoes exposition for vibes, so it disappointed. "Civil War" is more intense with fireworks.

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A typical number and selection of films for a week.

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Sherlock Jr (1924)
44 Inch Chest (2009)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
M3gan (2022)
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
Go (1999)
Jezebel (1938)

"Fun with Dick and Jane" was middling, but Dick makes jokes about a transwoman and gets told off for it, in 1977(!)

I enjoyed "Surf Nazis Must Die" more than the much more serious and higher budget "44 Inch Chest". And the Nazis did all die.

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An ordinary count and variety of films to watch in a week.

Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Welcome to Marwen (2019)
FDR: American Badass (2012)
Spartacus (1960)
Hair High (2004)
The Package (1989)

"Britannia" is the third and final in the Mick Travis trilogy, made me think of "The Hospital" (1971) a tiny bit.

"FDR" is much lamer than "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer"(2012) but same idea.

And I liked the "Marwencol" (2010) doc better than the fictionalized one.

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A very standard week's worth of movies.

Joysticks (1983)
Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
Bad Company (1972)
Narrow Margin (1990)
Red State (2011)
The Perils of Gwendolyn (1984)
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
The Fantastic Four (1994)

"Last Cab" was clear winner for best film this week. "Joysticks", by a narrow margin, is worse than the Roger Corman "Fantastic Four". "Gwendolyn" is just weird.

I wrote a blog entry about "Joysticks": qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2025/07/22/…

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A proper number and variety of films to watch in a week.

Looker (1981)
The Amateur (2025)
The Ward (2010)
Up the Creek (1984)
Palindromes (2004)
Excision (2012)
All About Eve (1950)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Buzzard (2015)

"Palindromes" was hard to watch, I knew it would be, so I had been putting it off a couple of years. "All About Eve" and "Bitter Moon" were both pretty dull. I only watched "Buzzard" for the Power Glove. "Excision" was a delightfully fun body horror and best of week.

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Family away, saw a few more than usual, nothing wrong with that right?

Crumb Catcher (2023)
Identity (2003)
Suburban Gothic (2014)
The Corruptor (1999)
The Fury (1978)
Trash Fire (2016)
Dangerous to Know (1938)
The Party (1968)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
American Mary (2013)
Black Candles (1982)
Night of the Coconut (2022)
Dead Calm (1989)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Our Man in Havana (1959)

"Dead Calm" was the best of the week.

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A week of movies, unremarkable in number or selection.

Big Eyes (2014)
Coma (1978)
Waitress (2007)
Gold (2022)
Carnage (2011)
Fathom (1967)
Mortal Engines (2018)

"Waitress" was really good, even if I had confused it with "Shopgirl" (2005) and wondered when Steve Martin would show up.

"Fathom" seems like a "Modesty Blaise" (1966) rip-off.

"Big Eyes" and "Carnage" I choose for Christoph Waltz.

"Mortal Engines" rips off from so much, the patchwork city is a patchwork of other stories.

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The watchings of the week.

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Bionic Showdown (1989)
Upstream Color (2013)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire (2024)
Prey (1977)
Deathgasm (2013)
Soup to Nuts (1930)
Sphinx (1981)
The Proposition (2005)

"Manos" is a better film than the made-for-tv "Bionic Showdown". "Ghostbusters" was pretty forgettable.

"Upstream Color", same writer/director as "Primer" (2004), gave me strange dreams.

"Proposition" was much more than I had expected. Good film.

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Another week, some more movies.

Salesman (1969)
Free Fire (2017)
Mindwarp (1991)
The Savage Eye (1959)
Sinners (2025)
Cake (2014)
The Final Cut (2004)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
I'll Take Your Dead (2019)
Spider Baby (1967)

"Salesman" and "Savage Eye" make a good pair. "Savage" keeps returning to my mind and may be favorite of the week.

"Mindwarp" reminded me of "The Matrix" (1991). "Final Cut" of "One Hour Photo" (2002). "Mark" had a terrible finish, I choose it for Carroll Borland's role.

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Besides Modular Film Fest (other thread), I watched a few other films in the last week.

A Quiet Place (2018)
The Toxic Avenger (2023)
The Howling (1981)
Top End Wedding (2019)

"Toxic Avenger" was shown in festivals starting 2023 but didn't get a proper release until now. I have been waiting for Peter Dinklage as Toxie Since it was in production. The crowd in the theater I went to was older than I expected but the place was full. Good reboot of the Troma mascot.

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Outside of the Modular Film Festival (in another thread) I only found the time to watch two other films this week.

Red Sonja (2025)
Gimme Shelter (1970)

I have never read "Sonja" so I don't know if it follows the comics well, but it was better than "Red Sonja" (1985) with Schwarzenegger top-billed.

I saw a news piece this week about a "Crusaders" bike gang providing security somewhere, so the Altamont Speedway concert documentary, with Hell's Angels providing "security", seemed a good choice

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In addition to the Modular Film Fest films in the past week I've seen:

Boar (2017)
Swamp Thing (1982)
10 Rillington Place (1971)

"Boar" is not as good as "Razorback" (1984), also a Aussie pig turned dangerous.

"Swamp Thing" is early Wes Craven, a bad comic book sourced story. It qualifies for two upcoming MFF prompts but I have other plans.

"Rillington" closes follows a real British mass murder case with a wrongful conviction. It was made in part to counter calls for a return to executions.

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Besides film fest, in the past week I watched:

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Swallows and Amazons (2016)
One Million Years BC (1966)
The Sales Girl (2021)

"Sales Girl", from Mongolia, is a delight.

The sword in "Sword and the Sorcerer" has three blades is more improbable than the film plot.

Some people say watch "One Million" for Raquel Welch, I say for the Harryhausen effects. No one says watch it for the story.

I've read all the Arthur Ransome books, hence the kid's flick "Swallows"

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After the Modular Film Festival, this week I watched:

Bloodcar (2007)
Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983)
The Fare (2018)
Necronomicon (1993)
Yellowbeard (1983)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
The Love Witch (2016)
Dead End Drive-In (1986)
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
The Time Travelers (1964)

High art, none of them. Several try to be: "Fare" (time loop mystery, written by a woman); "Love Witch" (erotic horror); and "Sleeping Beauty" (erotic thriller). Those last two both written/directed by women

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In this ordinary week, I watched a normal number of films.

Splinter (2008)
Teen Wolf (1985)
Cypher (2002)
Ballerina Assassin (2025)
Turkey Shoot (1982)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Fresh Meat (2012)
The Wicker Man (2006)
Going Berserk (1983)
Green Room (2015)
52 Pick-Up (1986)

"Cypher" was better than I would have guessed. Nice PKD vibe.

"Ballerina" is Asylum coat-tailing a title.

"Wicker" (2006) is a case study in how to ruin a remake.

"Meat" is a fun home invasion story.

"Green Room" is intense

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Another very typical movie watching week.

Midnight Lace (1960)
Carry On Nurse (1959)
Extracurricular Activities (2019)
Hercules Returns (1993)
Murder Party (2007)
The Professionals (1966)
The Frighteners (1996)
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
She Never Died (2020)

"Nurse" is a poor entry in the "Carry On" series. "Extracurricular" was fun fluff. "Hercules" is Aussie redub of a bad swords-and-sandles. "Futile" is better than I expected.

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Lonely weekend, lots watched. Nothing wrong with that, right?

She Never Died (2020)
Employee of the Month (2004)
XX (2017)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Werewolves Within (2021)
Warrior of the Lost World (1983)
M3gan 2.0 (2025)
Billy Liar (1963)
Blue Ruin (2013)
Party Line (1988)
Conversations with Other Women (2006)
Secret Mall Apartment (2024)
Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Hell Drivers (1957)
Radius (2017)
From Beyond (1986)

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Another ordinary week of films. Leaning towards Halloween perhaps.

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Thirteen Women (1932)
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
The Motel Life (2012)
The Langoliers (1995)
The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
Candyman (1992)
Piranha (1978)
Fair Game (1986)
The Iron Rose (1973)
Sole Survivor (1984)

Non-Horror:

"Zone" is Richard (and Danny) Elfman. More surreal than horror.

"Motel" is the unfortunate barely surviving.

"Quiller" standard 60s spy fare

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I watched some films this week. Typical.

Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Go Ask Alice (1973)
The Employer (2013)
One Battle After Another (2025)
Outland (1981)
Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Seraphim Falls (2006)
Ballerina (2025)
Suburbia (1983)

"Employer" is "Exam" (2009) but less subtle

"One Battle" was fun, but I could not recognize "Vineland" in it

"Outland": Cops in Spaaace!

"Slithis" and "Creature" for sea monster theme

"Suburbia" is SoCal punk scene

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A normal week of film.

Black Narcissus (1947)
Ratcatcher (1999)
S.O.B. (1981)
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Deathstalker (2025)
Special Effects (1984)
The Killer Elite (1975)
Ali G Indahouse (2002)
Oh God (1977)
Ginger Snaps (2000)

"Narcissus" and "Ratcatcher" are the winners of the week.

"S.O.B." is an elaborate scheme to get Julie Andrews to show her tits.

"Sometimes" is forumlaic King.

"Elite" has nice 1970s San Francisco scenes..

"God" the rare John Denver starring role.

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Once again, I saw some movies this week.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Cat Ballou (1965)
Meantime (1983)
Train Dreams (2025)
You Might Be the Killer (2018)
Viva (2007)
Lisztomania (1975)
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Lucky (2017)

"Meantime", "Dreams", and "Lucky" all fit a "what are you doing with your life?" theme seen from different ages.

"Spirits" and "Cat" both Jane Fonda.

"Inspector" is trash.

"Ten Rings" for Muni bus scene

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That's right. Another week has past and I watched some movies.

Krull (1983)
Moon Zero Two (1969)
Butter (2011)
Deathstalker (1983)
Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
Kid-Thing (2012)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Pig (2021)
Pay the Ghost (2015)
The Naked Gun (2025)

I decided I needed to rewatch the old "Deathstalker" to blog about the two films: qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2025/11/23/…

"Captain Alex" is one of the famed Wakaliwood Uganda action films

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Not so many films this week.

Dr Cyclops (1940)
Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Vera Drake (2004)
Heartbeeps (1981)
The Postcard Bandit (2003)
Terrorvision (1986)

"Cyclops" is classic mad scientist thing.

"Carol" is a Rod Serling rewrite of Dickens.

"Vera" is a Mike Leigh period piece.

"Heartbeeps" is Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as robots.

"Postcard" is about a real Aussie criminal.

"Terrorvision" is a wild trip with Mary Woronov from the director of "The Dungeonmaster" (1985)

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I watched some more films this week than last.

I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
Invasion (1965)
Robot Carnival (1987)
Black Bag (2025)
Divorce American Style (1967)
Weapons (2025)
Monsters (2010)
Lady in White (1988)

"Alone" is post-apocalyptic Peter Dinklage.

"Invasion" was later adapted into a Doctor Who story.

"Carnival" is manga anthology.

"Bag" is a smart spy story.

"Divorce" is a rom-com for boomers.

"Monsters" was less than I hoped.

"Lady" is a very slow kid-friendly ghost story

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Films? Yes. Watch the films. Last week:

Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017)
Black Christmas (1974)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
The Ballad of Josie (1967)
Dead Heat (1988)
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Lola (1961)
Lola (1981)
Lola (2023)
Fat Pizza (2003)
Bugonia (2025)

"Dead Man" is second best "Knives Out"

"Bugonia" is a gory paranoia comedy

"Tribes" is more like "A Dysfunctional Family of Palos Verdes"

"Black Christmas" is the rare 70s sorority slasher without nudity

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A day late, 26th is always busy for me, but the week's movies up to Friday:

Extracted (2012)
The Big Heat (1953)
Seven (1979)
Still Crazy (1998)
Lions for Lambs (2007)
You Won't Be Alone (2022)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)

"Extracted" is bad going inside other people's minds

"Big Heat" is Noir from Fritz Lang

"Seven" is below average government contract killers

"Crazy" is "Spinal Tap" lite

"Lions" is starts well but ends in a swamp

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Holiday week, some holiday films. And some others.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
Turks & Caicos (2014)
Sorceress (1982)
Holiday Affair (1949)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Time Walker (1982)
45 Years (2015)
Breaker Breaker (1977)
Phantom Thread (2017)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969)

"Legs" is an intense performance about a mom at the end of her rope.

"Turks" is a spy film, the sequel to "Page Eight" (2011)

"Sorceress" is swords and sorcery with terrible sword fighting

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A week of movies with Eli the Bearded.

Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Eureka (1983)
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963)
Planet Earth (1974)
Chappie (2015)
Breathless (1960)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Twinless (2025)
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)

"Salting" ends the Worrick trilogy that started with "Page Eight" (2011)

"Eureka" is Gene Hackman and Rutger Hauer in gold prospector's murder story

"Earth" is a Gene Roddenberry film, feels like a TV pilot

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"Kindness" is a Yorgos Lanthimos anthology film with the same actors having different roles in three stories

"Yesterday" is a Vittorio De Sica anthology film with the same actors having different roles in three stories

"Breathless" is the exemplar of French New Wave

"Slave" is a hard look, but not as hard as it could have been

"Twinless" is rom-com with a funeral

"An Evening" is a very carefull affected oddball comedy

"Chappie" I wrote about in my blog: qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2026/01/09/…

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"Affair" is Robert Mitchum trying to clean up his image

"Eight Bells" has Anthony Hopkins an action star, a British frogman looking for stolen ships

"Walker" is late Monsterdon film, ancient aliens and mummies

"45 Years" is how a marriage can break up late in life

"Breaker" is Chuck Norris vs the Speed Trap Town

"Phantom" is fashion house romance, of a sort

"Horses" is a dance-a-thon that destroys desperate people

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"Company" is "Little Red Riding Hood" with werewolves

"Dead Heat" is buddy-cop film with zombie cop named "Roger Mortis"

"Devil" is just fun b-flick

"Pizza" is low-brow Aussie based on a sit-com

And for a personal Josie/Lola theme:

"Josie" is boomer Western-Rom-Com

Three of at least nine films named "Lola":

1961: French fairy-tale romance

1981: Fassbinder's rework of "The Blue Angel" (1930), now set in 1950s Germany

2023: Waste of time time machine to see future or past

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"Weapons" is witchcraft story from the director of the Airbnb horror "Barbarian" (2022).

I rather liked Jason Read's "private property enables horror" reviews of the two films. (Jason is active on Mastodon: @JasonReadunemployednegativity )

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"Pig" is Nicholas Cage looking for his stolen pig. "Ghost" is is Nicholas Cage looking for his stolen kid.

"Ladybug" is like a prequel to "The War Game" (1965). There's an alarm at school and no one knows if it is real or false. But they treat it as real and the film ends with no conclusion. And possibly one death by suffocation.

"Moon" is Hammer Films making a space western

"Spy" is cold-hearted Cold War espionage games

"Friday" is like a lighthearted "Ace in the Hole" (1951)

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I'll probably expand this film's comments into a blog post. But for now: "Deathstalker" is a remake of the 1983 film.

The original is a T&A Spectacular / Swords and Sorcery / Comedy in that order of priority.

Jokes are of the "Dog, the other white meat" caliber.

Every woman under 30 in the cast is there to show skin.

The title character is not morally ambiguous, he's morally odious. "Antihero" would be a gentrification of the man.

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The 2025 "Deathstalker" has reined most of that in. The story has a similar flavor but the moral smell has dissipated.

It's a Swords and Sorcery / Comedy. No dogs get eaten.

There's only two plot signficant women, but both keep their clothes on. (One is a witch who doesn't even show her face.)

It is still small budget and using practical effects, with a lot of gore. And evil frogs. But now way less embarrassing to watch with company.

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And the horror films:

"Thirteen" is Myrna Loy before "Thin Man". She's the killer here, in a roundabout way.

"Phibes" is a very low dialog Vincent Price campy revenge.

"Candyman" is Candyman.

"Piranha" is Roger Corman killer fish.

"Iron" is Jean Collin French graveyard romp gone wrong.

"Survivor" supposes survival was an accident and needs correction.

I put my thoughts about "Langoliers" and "Timekeepers" in a blog post: qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2025/10/30/…

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"Fair Game" is an Aussie torment-the-woman-until-she-snaps type thing. More action and dismay than horror, but horrible things happen.

It's not a good story, but has incredible stunt work. I'm a sucker for those 70s and 80s danger to all involved stunts.

In "Game", I kept waiting for the snap to happen, it's really delayed. But meanwhile people are jumping between cars without wires, running around on a tin roof while a ute (pick-up) knocks down the supports, stuff like that.

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"Never Died" feels like the first of a series

"Employee" and "Milkshake": both disappointing

"XX", a female directed horror anthology, was fun

"Carnal" is tedious Jack Nicholson

"Lost World" is amusing "Max Max"-ish cheese

"Blue Ruin" is another Jeremy Saulnier item

"Coversations" nice twist on chance wedding meet-up

"Apartment" is a good documentary, not about Roof Man

"Drivers" good noir, and early showing for many stars

"Radius" starts well but ends dreary

"Beyond" is fun Lovecraft

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"Murder Party" is same director as "Green Room" from previous week. Fun Halloween party comedy horror, where the intended victim is the most competent. (And possibly the best artist.)

"I Don't Feel at Home" is directed by guy playing the werewolf in "Party". Also stage manager in "Green Room". Also director of "Toxic Avenger" (2023). I didn't enjoy it as much as any of the others, but the second half is better than the first.

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"I'll Take Your Dead" I may have selected for the full sentence movie title thing ( fed.qaz.red/@elithebearded/115… ),

It didn't really live up to the intrigue of the title, but it wasn't bad.

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I've been posting these weekly lists for ten weeks now.

Over that time I've watched 94 movies from the years 1924 to 2025, a span of 101 years. A weekly average of 9 and also median 9; about 1.3 per day. Fewest films in a week was 7, highest 15.

The median week has a range of 80 years. Smallest range in a week was 51, highest 98.

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After "Excision" (2012) last week, I tried two others from director Robert Bates Jr: "Suburban Gothic" (meh) and "Trash Fire" (not bad). "American Mary", like a "Promising Young Woman" (2020) but with black market surgery, was better than either.

Also have to mention, the lack of self-awareness of Peter Sellers, playing an Indian in "The Party", explaining what is offensive to India. Wow.

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And....

It’s funny what I remember about films. I looked at the poster and read a teaser before starting a film this week. I watched the silent beach front photography it opens with, still with no recognition. Then hearing the first line of dialog I remembered it, plot and the twist ending. So, that's when I stopped "Dead & Buried" (1981) and watched "Meet Joe Black" instead.

I only started recording what I watch in 2023. I suspect I saw "Dead & Buried" in 2022.

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This Kelly Osbourne video is a remarkably good four minute summary of "Alphaville" (1965):

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New Year, new Wikipedia list.

Wrote a quick stub for Valorie Taylor, the Republican chosen by the Governor to replace Jim Harrison who resigned from the Vermont House of Representatives because he's moving to New Hampshire. Taylor had previously resigned from her town's selectboard (where she served as chair) citing "stress" as the reason. No official portrait yet, so here's her running a race.

Last year's list is here. glammr.us/@jessamyn/1137555864…

in reply to Jessamyn

One more quick stub for one more appointed Senator, this one is mine! A staggering 35 years of volunteer firefighting service for this civil engineer and currently his town's Selectboard chair. I'm a little surprised he's got time to work in the legislature. Good luck John Benson!

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10 January 1861 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Geertje Polak-Hoogstraal, was born in Appingedam.

In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her husband Salomon. After selection they were both murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU


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ich wette, dass sich der großteil des ai-inference-computes in den rechenzentren heute auf vor allem video-generierung konzentriert. das ist nicht nur sau viel rechenintensiver als textgenerierung, sondern wahrscheinlich auch mittlerweile die populärste nutzungsart und auch das, womit leute jetzt geld verdienen, und man muss sich überlegen, dass jedem erfolgreichen slop-post, millionen generierungen fehlgeschlagener versuche vorausgingen. es wird ja überhaupt nur ein prozent gepostet?
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ich würde außerdem schätzen, dass ein nicht geringer teil vor allem der video-generierung von politischen akteuren erfolgt, die versuchen mit deepfakes narrative zu setzen. beispielsweise werden die netzwerke gerade mit deepfakes von ice-zusammenstößen geflutet, in denen ice-cops mit absurden angriffen agressiver zivilisten drangsaliert werden. und ein ebenfalls nicht geringer teil davon geht in die erstellung von fake-porn oft von frauen in der öffentlichkeit, oder aus dem nahfeld.
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mit anderen worten: was die tech-oligarchen mit ihren billioneninvestionen gerade bauen, ist eine virtuelle fake-realität, in der sie ihre anhänger*innen gelockt haben, in der sich rechtschaffende ice-cops als verfolgte minderheit einer außer kontrolle geratenen zivilbevölkerung verteidigen, was dann den weg frei macht, in der realität tatsachen zu schaffen.

während musk die moralische "reinwaschung" von den epstein-files besorgt, indem er dem maga-volk mit grok "epstein as a service" anbietet.

in reply to Michael Seemann

Die Wirkung von Video-AI-Slop liegt an der absurden Unvorhersehbarkeit… irgendwie feiert das Gehirn diese unerwarteten Reize / Dinge die da so passieren. Hab mich selbst dabei manchmal erwischt, wie ich manchmal recht krass schmunzeln musste. glaube, Humor fungiert in diesem Kontext als zentraler Hebel für das Einschleusen der Manipulation / Lüge.
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Die Generierung von Bildern ist nicht rechenintensiver als die von Text, ganz im Gegenteil. Wenn ich hier auf dem Rechner ein LLM lokal ausführe oder ein Diffusionsmodell zur Bildgenerierung, dann dauert die Bildgenerierung maximal 1-2 Minuten, das LLM braucht 5-10 Minuten. Videos sind richtig übel, auf der Maschine 2-3 Stunden für 5 Sekunden Video.
Das Problem mit vielen kommerziellen Bildgeneratoren ist, daß das vom User eingetippte Prompt gar nicht direkt an das Bildgenerator-Modell weitergereicht wird, sondern daß stattdessen das Prompt an ein LLM geht, welches daraus ein anderes Prompt generiert, das dann an den Bildgenerator geht. Manchmal kann man das abschalten ("Alchemy" oder "Magic" oder "Enhance Prompt" oder was auch immer), oft aber auch nicht.
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