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‘Battlestar Galactica’ Officially Sets New Release for August 11

Battlestar Galactica, the acclaimed military space opera, returns on Blu-ray this month with a 21-disc set featuring all its installments.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 21h ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #903 -- To Catch a Thief (1955) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Notorious cat burglar John Robie (Cary Grant) has long since retired to tend vineyards on the French Riviera. When a series of robberies is committed in his style, John must clear his name. Armed with a list of people who own the most expensive jewels currently in the area, John begins following the first owner, young Francie (Grace Kelly). When her jewels are stolen, Francie suspects John, destroying their tentative romance. John goes on the lam to catch the thief and clear his own name.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2d ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #904 -- 007 Dr. No (1962) dir. Terence Young

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3d ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #905 -- Malcolm X (1992) dir. Spike Lee

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 4d ago

Truth.

Alan Cumming, about trans people being smeared as being predatory in public restrooms:

“Why on Earth would a rapist go through the trouble of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people?”

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 4d ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #906 -- Minari (2020) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 5d ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #907 -- I, You, He, She (1974) dir. Chantal Akerman

'Je' is a girl voluntarily locked up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 5d ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #908 -- I Walked with a Zombie (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur

Canadian nurse Betsey Connell (Frances Dee) is hired to care for Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), a woman on a Caribbean sugar plantation, who has a bizarre condition. The mysterious affliction baffles Betsy but when she falls for Jessica's husband, Paul (Tom Conway), she is determined to make him happy by curing his wife. However, in her quest, Betsey is drawn into the island's dark culture of voodoo and zombies and begins to uncover the Holland family's sinister secrets.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 7d ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #909 -- Juliet of the Spirits (1965) dir. Federico Fellini

Released in 1965, Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti) is Federico Fellini's first feature film in color. Starring his wife and muse Giulietta Masina, the surreal fantasy drama follows a middle-class housewife who confronts her husband's infidelity by embarking on a dazzling, hallucinatory journey of self-discovery through memories, visions, and ghosts.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · last wk.

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #910 -- The Leopard Man (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur

When Latin dancer Clo-Clo (Margo) begins to overshadow nightclub singer Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks), Kiki's agent, Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe), decides to spice up his client's act with an enormous black leopard on a leash. But the big cat escapes from the club -- and soon after, a young girl (Margaret Landry) and others are found dead around their small town. When evidence suggests that the killer may be human, suspicion falls on the leopard's Native American owner (Abner Biberman).

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · last wk.

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #912 -- One Way of Another (1977) dir. Sara Gomez

One Way or Another (De cierta manera) is a 1977 Cuban film directed by Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. It blends fiction and documentary footage to explore post-revolution Havana, class, and sexism. Gómez died before completing it, and colleagues finished the movie.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · last wk.

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #913 -- The Puppetmaster (1993) dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

An 84-year-old man reminisces about his days as a puppeteer and when he was forced to work Japanese propaganda into his acts.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

HIM: They're stealing the election!
HER: Yeah, when they stormed the capital with zip ties on January 6th.

HIM: They're using dead people to vote!
HER: Yup. Mitch McConnell.

HIM: The Lizard King is Ruling with a Demon Cabal!
HER: Elon Musk or Epstein?

HIM: It's a conspiracy!
HER: I agree.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #914 -- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) dir. Wes Anderson

In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy, becomes Gustave's friend and protégé. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When one of Gustave's lovers dies mysteriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #915 -- Children of Heaven (1997) dir. Majid Majidi

When young Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) accidentally loses the only pair of shoes his little sister Zahra (Bahare Seddiqi) owns, the siblings attempt to hide the bad news from their poverty-stricken father (Mohammad Amir Naji) and ill mother (Fereshte Sarabandi). They devise a scheme to share Ali's own pair of worn sneakers until they can find a new pair of shoes for Zahra. This documentary-like film was shot on location in some of Tehran's poorest areas.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #916 -- Porco Rosso (1992) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso (Shuichiro Moriyama), a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo (Akemi Okamura) and his longtime friend Madame Gina (Tokiko Kato).

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #917 -- Floating Clouds (1955) dir. Mikio Naruse

Yukiko Koda drifts around the rubble of a devastated Tokyo, trying to make sense of the destruction and to find purpose and stability for herself.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #918 -- A Time to Live, A Time to Die (1985) dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

Inspired by filmmaker Hsiao-hsien Hou's own childhood, this drama centers on Ah-Ha-Gu (You Anshun), a boy who comes of age during a tumultuous time in his family's history. When the Gu family made the move from China's mainland to Taiwan, the elder family members struggled to adapt in their new environment while the adolescent Ah-Ha thrived. Indeed, as Ah-Ha grows to maturity, the generation gap grows fearsomely wide, threatening to alienate the young man from his family and their traditions.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #919 -- The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) dir. Juan José Campanella

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín Espósito begins writing a novel based on the decades-old unsolved mystery of a newlywed's rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, Judge Irene Menéndez Hastings, Benjamín attempts to make sense of the past. The journey through his memories sets Benjamín on a thrilling emotional path that leads to a shocking realization.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #920 -- Heaven Can Wait (1943) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that His Excellency will arrive at the proper judgment.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proof of life for Mitch McConnell, Elvis Priestley, Abraham Lincoln, and Grey Alien.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #921 -- Entranced Earth (1967) dir. Glauber Rocha

Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. A jaded journalist opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudo-populist and a conservative.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #922 -- Love Streams (1984) dir. John Cassavetes

A troubled divorcee (Gena Rowlands) and a moody writer (John Cassavetes) are apart and then together, sharing a special relation.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #923 -- A Beautiful Mind (2001) dir. Ron Howard

Based on the true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr, who seemed to be guaranteed a promising future when he won international acclaim as a result of his pioneering work in the field. After he is recruited to assist the military with top-secret code-breaking duties, the high-pressure job takes its toll on him, and he begins to develop a mental illness.

Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 3w ago

The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #924 -- Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang

A young woman befriends a man experiencing a midlife crisis, and is convinced by her venal fiancé to con the man out of the fortune she believes him to be in possession of.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #925 -- Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju

Dr. Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane (Edith Scob), who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise (Alida Valli), kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #926 -- Midnight in Paris (2011) dir. Woody Allen

Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is a small-time American gambler, newly arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When he is caught cheating at a game of blackjack, Farrell manages to talk his way into a job with the casino's owner, the powerful Ballin Mundson (George Macready). The two form an uneasy partnership based on their mutual lack of scruples until Mundson introduces Farrell to his beautiful new wife, Gilda (Rita Hayworth), who just happens to be Farrell's ex-lover.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #927 -- Midnight in Paris (2011) dir. Woody Allen

Gil Pender is a screenwriter and aspiring novelist. Vacationing in Paris with his fiancée, he has taken to touring the city alone. On one such late-night excursion, Gil encounters a group of strange -- yet familiar -- revelers, who sweep him along, apparently back in time, for a night with some of the Jazz Age's icons of art and literature. The more time Gil spends with these cultural heroes of the past, the more dissatisfied he becomes with the present.

Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 4w ago

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #NoKings #928 -- Flowers of Shanghai (1998) dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.