I wonder what the stream of consciousness holds by the fire this year for all the good guys, gals, and enby pals this holiday season! We have a festive set of things to discuss this month for your choosing:
Christmas Specials Medley
A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Pinky and the Brain, and Wish for Wings Th...
2025-12-05 03:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Given the tonal whiplash of Cop Rock and the power of song we wanted to capture that dissonance below with the following options for this November's film!
Walk Hard
John C. Reilly stars in this great, merciless parody of music biopics.
Get Carter
Michael Caine is London gangster Jack Carter, who...
2025-11-07 23:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostTo catch up on our backlog here is the second poll for October with these seasonally specific options!
Noroi The Curse
Per IMDB: "A prominent paranormal journalist Kobayashi goes missing shortly after completing a documentary. What begins as an investigation into strange noises soon evolves into the chilling mystery of a demonic entity...
Three Days of the Condor: "A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust." - IMDB. Good spy thriller with Redford and Faye Dunaway starring.
Jeremiah Johnson: "A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling ...
August has been a confusing and surreal month of opacity, and intensely uncomfortable images- so fuck that shit let's have some fun !
The Taking of Beverly Hills
An ex-football player (Ken Wahl) on a date in Beverly Hills ends up the only one who can stop the cops from staging a fake chemical spill to rob the swanky homes in this fun ...
Hi Everyone!
This month we'll be discussing from these 3 very cheesy and nostalgic texts from anime history, ANIME NITE, or my very specific nostalgia for a time I never knew yet always haunts me-- 1600s era jesuit missionaries making contact with Japan! Choose below and keep an eye out in the discord for when it'll be!
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Our movies for May's poll include:
Real Genius
The late great Val Kilmer stars in this surprisingly good natured comedy as a rebellious and intelligent tech college student who is tricked into working on weapons.
Scarface (1932)
This would be an encore as this was one of the earliest movies EVER on SoC. The classic 1932 g...
2025-05-25 00:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor a short month we have a short list of 3 films!
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
George Lazenby’s only outing as Bond and what some consider to be the best. I don’t know like the other two I’m kind of just curious to see if I like this.
Wild at Heart
Directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, a...
2025-02-02 22:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostAsk not for whom the patreon polls, it polls for thee...
Shredder Orpheus
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice but with skateboards in post apocalypse Seattle. That’s all you need right there really.
King of New York
Christopher Walken stars as a drug kingpin recently released from prison who seeks control of the Ne...
2025-01-12 00:21:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs we discuss classic Batman films we wanted to pull some proximate figures that we've discussed before in hopefully a new light:
Darkman, Dick Tracy, and The Rocketeer
2024-12-10 12:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, these are the choices for this month's Patron-Exclusive discussion!
Delta Space Mission
The first animated feature from Romania features a prog rock soundtrack and trippy visuals. Don’t know much more than that but I’ve heard its quite entertaining!
Cloak and Dagger
Davey (Henry Thomas from ET), a kid obs...
The Invisible Man
Between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale helmed another classic Universal monster movie, with Claude Rains as the titular invisible man. Charming, funny, full of 30s character actors, and with visual effects that are still pretty impressive!
Son of Frankenstein
Produced after Bride, ...
2024-10-10 13:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostDo you remember? There is a SoC poll for September! This month we discuss one of these 3:
Love on Delivery
1994 martial arts romantic comedy featuring a young Stephen Chow, in which a delivery man falls in love, but must prove himself worthy after a disastrous first impression. One fight features a guy in a Garfield mask.
High...
This month we are keeping the energy high and mixing in some real contrast with:
Magic Crystal
Andy Lau and Cynthia Rothrock star in Wong Jing’s (God of Gamblers, Royal Tramp, Naked Killer) mix of martial arts action and 80s Spielberg wonder. Secret agents and bad guys are after the titular magic crystal and fights ensue, its ...
Hope you're staying cool! Things are getting heated as we continue to mix Japanese cinema and Utena with these options for our next movie!
Jeans Blues No Future
Japanese youth drama that borrows a lot from Bonnie and Clyde, in which a young woman and a man who just stole millions of yen go on the run across Japan.
Howdy everyone! This month we have selected three wild films lining up with some of the directors we've looked at and are anticipating later on!
Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven makes a nunsploitation movie basically. Based loosely on real events in which a nun in 17th century Italy suffered religious visions and romanced a fellow nu...
2024-06-17 11:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostHow do spring-goers watching the seasons slip away through climate change, we have some wild movies to continue our problematic faves block:
Lost Highway
David Lynch’s odyssey through a cursed and violent Hollywood was inspired in part by the then-recent OJ trial. Steamy neo-noir about a man accused of his wife’s murder intersecti...
We're following up Space Dandy with one of 3 very silly pieces of Sci-Fi. Deal with zany Xenomorphs, lunacy on the Moon,or Mila Kunis with these choices !
Alien 3
David Fincher’s directorial debut is about as relentlessly bleak as a major studio release can get, reflecting its extremely troubled production. Ripley is strand...
2024-04-13 05:14:28 +0000 UTC View PostOh. Right. Patron stream. Patron stream… I am going to crane my neck over to the Blu-Rays I haven’t put on my shelf yet… These’ll do!
I Come in Peace aka Dark Angel
From the director of Action Jackson and Stone Cold, loose cannon cop Dolph Lundgren fights an alien addicted to endorphins who kills people with CD shaped blades....
Greetings Space Adventurers! For this bonus poll we have 3 classic campy space films to choose from.
Barbarella
Knowingly silly early comic book adaptation about the adventures of space traveler Barbarella (Jane Fonda) trying to find a missing scientist by the name of Durand Durand who has created a doomsday weapon. Extravagantly pro...
2024-02-07 14:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostTo continue the theme for January we have, some really good anime on tap as part of the 3 options for this month!
Kase-san and the Morning Glories A short, romantic high school yuri feature based on a manga. I believe this was on a patron poll way way back. Heard good things!
Ocean Waves In their senior year of high school, a lov...
This time we... ran out of ideas, so we're recycling old movies that didn't clear the bar the first time. Best 2 out of 3, right? Vote on three of the lowest voted movies of the last year !
The Fury
Brian De Palma’s followup to Carrie also involves psychics! A former CIA agent is trying to find his telekenetic son who has been spiri...
Run Lola, Run to the polls folks, cause we have a new patron-only vote for another cool movie to discuss this month! Trying to stick to the theme of movies focused on dislocation in time and raw speed:
Premium Rush
Joseph Gordon Levitt is a New York City bike courier, pursued by a cop played by Michael Shannon, who wants an item he’...
We have three movies with some real bite and lesbian undertones available as our choice for you, our lovely patrons this month!
Daughters of Darkness
An eloping couple on vacation encounters a beautiful countess and her aide at a deserted seaside hotel. Classic early 70s Euro erotic horror.
Fascination
A fugitive on t...
Schools back in session and the subjects of this months set of 3 bonus films each cast light on ways that the teenage experience fails to align with the romantic narratives of high school adn growing up that many of us have internalized in western culture. To that end, pick out one of these 90s and early 2000s cult hits and break out debuts, and...
2023-09-15 01:43:41 +0000 UTC View Post'Sup gamers, this month we have 3 unique stories focus on crime, youth, and marginalization, and
Booksmart
Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (Justified) are two seniors who decide to go all out on the eve of their high school graduation. A recent indie hit from first time director Olivia Wilde.
Persepolis
A...
2023-08-06 21:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, to keep the action energy high through the summer we have picked out three classics with a lot of history!
The Last Starfighter
A teenager with no future finds out the arcade game he’s mastered is actually a training program to recruit him into fighting in an interstellar war. Frequent John Carpenter collaborator Nick ...
This summer: Crime is a laughing matter. Vote between 3 films centered respectively on big heists, hot pursuit, and Bob Odenkirk:
Out of Sight
An Elmore Leonard adaptation directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, and Don Cheadle. A career bank robber (Clooney) falls for a US Marshal (Lo...
2023-06-12 19:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostAll right… since we’re looking at Escaflowne, let’s keep the classic fantasy anime train rollin’.
Demon City Shinjuku
SoC fave Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll, Cyber City Oedo 808, parts of The Animatrix) helmed this extremely derivative but fun fantasy horror about an evil sorcerer who takes over...
2023-04-11 20:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! For this month we are doing a bunch of silly movies about satan and the supernatural, 2 by Brian De Palma!
The Fury (1978) Brian De Palma goes back to psychics for this thriller about a CIA agent trying to rescue his telekinetic son from terrorists. Starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Iriving, and Charles Durning. &...