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ANNOUNCING THE TVCH AWARDS 2021

Below are the categories and nominees, if you would like to write in a nominee you are welcome to, and there are some nominee only categories. Each board has at least 1 award this year and we will of course be voting for board of the year as well. Ballots can be posted in this thread or emailed to [email protected]

BALLOTS ARE DUE BY JANUARY 21st, CEREMONY WILL BE ON JANUARY 22nd AT 6pm US CENTRAL TIME


/tv/ categories
BEST FILM
>Dune
>Pig
>The French Dispatch
>Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0
>The Snyder Cut

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>Warner releases something that they think isn't 100% wokeshit
>/tv/ full of falseflag (((racists))) pretending they don't get the blindingly obvious subtext.
Is this the new normal? Is this all that's left of conversation? It's a fucking weekly and we're actually going to pretend this shit is controversial?

inb4 you unironic idiots mimic the falseflags because you're not bright enough to see through it. I fucking hate the future.

Is Scotland really like this? This is almost America tier. A disgrace to Europe.

The.Tragedy.of.Macbeth.2021.720p.WEB.H264-NAISU

Let's be honest, the Coen brothers always made kino. When was the last time they let us down? The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was awesome, as was Fargo, the True Grit remake, Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, the list goes on.

Netflix has increased the price of its monthly subscription plans in the U.S. and Canada, effective immediately for new subscribers beginning on Friday.

In the U.S., subscribers to Netflix's basic plan, which allows for one stream on one screen at a time and does not have HD streaming, will now be charged $9.99 a month, up from $8.99. Standard plans - which allow for users to stream on two screens at the same time - now cost $15.49 per month, an increase from $13.99, while premium plans have inched up to $19.99 a month.

Existing subscribers will begin to see the price changes "over the coming weeks," depending on their billing cycle. Subscribers will receive an email and in-app notification 30 days in advance of when the new subscription prices will take effect in their accounts.

Canadian subscribers will also be facing price increases, though the basic plan will remain the same price at this time. Standard plans in Canada will now cost $16.49 CAD and premium plans will cost $20.99 CAD.

The price increases come as Netflix has recently seen slowing growth in the U.S. and Canada and, at one point, lost around 400,000 subscribers in the region during the second quarter of 2021. The streamer was able to recover from those losses by Q3, adding around 70,000 new paid subscribers in the U.S./Canada, but the Asia-Pacific region emerged as the top contributor to Netflix's subscriber growth.

Netflix last hiked up its prices in Oct. 2020 by $1 to $2, depending on the subscription tier. The streaming giant is planning to disclose Q4 2021 earnings later this month, on Jan. 20.

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Let me preface this by saying I love Robert Siodmak's work, but damn, was The Killers a stinker. Don Siegel's version is much superior. Of course, it took Siodmak's film as a blueprint and there's nearly nothing of Hemingway's story despite being marketed with the deceiving title of "Ernest Hemingway's The Killers"… But as a film, it's superior in every way. Siodmak's version dragged. Even though I had already seen Siodmak's version, Siegel's kept me engaged from start to end.
Also honorable mention to the version directed by Tarkovsky, Gordon and Beiku for daring to go fully literal unlike Siodmak and dropping "nigger" on the audience a few times and giving their part nigger actor blackface over his brown skin for greater effect. It drags too, but it's a literal adaptation much like the first scene from Siodmak's.
Siodmak's own later work Criss Cross is a much superior film using a very similar formula. I think Siegel took inspiration from both films for his, but it's even more deliciously violent. The film is a much better thriller, but admittedly uses the other as its main inspiration. Rather than being a new adaptation of Hemingway's story it's a remake of the original, and one of those few remakes that improve on the original product.
Ava Gardner is a more alluring femme fatale than Angie Dickinson, but overall the newer movie just flows better. The shorter runtime helps, and changing the boxer into a race driver allows for much better action. The killers themselves driving the story also help keep tension high.

We need to watch this.