Last Night In Curated [Episode #6]

Squid Games

'Squid Game' Is Decisively Netflix No. 1 Show of All Time With 1.65 Billion Hours Streamed in First Four Weeks, Company Says

Netflix has released new data for its global smash hit " Squid Game " - showing it as No. 1 with a bullet. "Squid Game" pulled in a staggering 1.65 billion hours of viewing in 28 days following its Sept. 17 premiere, according to Netflix. That's equivalent to more than 182,000 years in total.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/squid-game-all-time-most-popular-show-netflix-1235113196/

'Squid Game' Is Decisively Netflix No. 1 Show of All Time With 1.65 Billion Hours Streamed in First Four Weeks, Company Says

Hellbound

Sweet Home

Webtoon

Webtoon - Wikipedia

Webtoons ( Hangul: 웹툰) are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones. Webtoons may be referred to as manhwa - a term used to characterize Korean comics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtoon

WEBTOON

When civil engineering student Suho Kim falls asleep reading a fantasy novel, he wakes up as a character in the book! Suho is now in the body of Lloyd Frontera, a lazy noble who loves to drink, and whose family is in a mountain of debt.

https://www.webtoons.com/en/

Hannibal

Cowboy Bebop live action

Original animated Cowboy Bebop

John Cho (spike)

John Cho - IMDb

John Cho, Actor: Star Trek. John Yohan Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Los Angeles, California as a child. His father was a Christian minister. Cho was educated at Herbert Hoover High School at Glendale, before moving on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied English literature.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158626/

Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro - Wikipedia

Guillermo del Toro Gómez ( Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro

Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez - Wikipedia

Robert Anthony Rodriguez (; born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi , which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million against a budget of $7,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodriguez

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky - Wikipedia

Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films are noted for their surrealism, melodramatic, and disturbing elements, often based in psychological fictions. Aronofsky attended Harvard University, where he studied film and social anthropology, and then the American Film Institute where he studied directing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Aronofsky

Satoshi Kon

Satoshi Kon - Wikipedia

(今敏, Satoshi Kon Kon Satoshi, October 12, 1963 - August 24, 2010) was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaidō and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). Tsuyoshi Kon, a guitarist, is his brother. He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kon

Wachowski sisters

The Wachowskis - Wikipedia

Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965, formerly known as Larry Wachowski) and Lilly Wachowski (born December 29, 1967, formerly known as Andy Wachowski) are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women. Collectively known as the Wachowskis (), the sisters have worked as a writing and directing team through most of their careers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis

Old Boy

Old Boy manga

Shinobi live action

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village.

https://letterboxd.com/film/shinobi-heart-under-blade/

ruroni kenshin live action

Death Note

Death Note - Wikipedia

Death Note Genre Manga English publisher Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump Demographic Shōnen Original run December 1, 2003 - May 15, 2006 Volumes 12 ( List of volumes) Novel Published by Shueisha Published August 1, 2006 Anime television series Produced by Music by Licensed by English network Original run October 3,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note

Japanese live action adaptation

Death Note (2006) English Trailer [FHD]

The original trailer in high definition of Death Note directed by Shûsuke Kaneko. Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama and Asaka Seto.AKA:A halállis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZQ-_GLzYs

American live action adaptation

Ryuk

Light Yagami

Rewind Of The Living Dead Pod - An Education in International Horror w/ Special Guest Rabia Sitabi — Episode 65

‎Rewind of the Living Dead: An Education in International Horror w/ Special Guest Rabia Sitabi - Episode 65 on Apple Podcasts

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we're going to travel across the globe as we welcome in our special guest Rabia Sitabi to serve as our tour guide as we take a deep dive into the world of international horror....

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-education-in-international-horror-w-special-guest/id1535754681?i=1000543476439

The Ring by Koji Suzuki

Ring (Suzuki novel) - Wikipedia

Ring is a Japanese mystery horror novel by Koji Suzuki first published in 1991, and set in modern-day Japan. The novel was the first in the Ring novel series, and the first of a trilogy, along with two sequels: (1995) and (1998). The original novel sold 500,000 copies by January 1998, and 1.5million copies by July 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(Suzuki_novel)

Streaming netflix/ Hulu/ Amazon/ investment in Asian content

Netflix Will Invest $500 Million In Korean Content This Year

At Netflix's "See What's Next: Korea" online event on Thursday, the streaming giant announced that it will be spending half a billion dollars on expanding its slate of Korean original films and shows.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saramerican/2021/02/26/netflix-will-invest-500-million-in-korean-content-this-year/?sh=2d12571e194b

Inhuman Kiss

Boy Harsher

The Runner short

King Woman

Drive

My name

Benedetta

Paul Veerhoeven

Paul Verhoeven - Wikipedia

Paul Verhoeven ( Dutch: [ˈpʌu̯l vərˈɦuvə(n)]; born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director and screenwriter active in the Netherlands, France and the United States. His blending of graphic violence and sexual content with social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. After receiving attention for the TV series in his native Netherlands, Verhoeven got his film breakthrough with romantic drama Turkish Delight (1973), starring frequent collaborator Rutger Hauer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven

IFC Center - Wikipedia

IFC Center is an art house movie theater in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. Located at 323 Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) at West 3rd Street, it was formerly the Waverly Theater, a well- known art house movie theater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFC_Center

The Matrix

Nightmare Alley

Antlers

The Black Phone

Spider-Man No way home

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke - Wikipedia

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Hawke has directed three feature films, three off-Broadway plays, and a documentary. He has also written three novels and one graphic novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Hawke

Sinister

Crimson Peak

Shape of Water

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Last night in soho

Dune

Timothee Chalamet

Timothée Chalamet - Wikipedia

Timothée Hal Chalamet ( TIM-ə-thee SHAL-ə-may , French: [timɔte ʃalamɛ]; born December 27, 1995) is an American actor. He has received several accolades throughout his career, including nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoth%C3%A9e_Chalamet

Everyman

Everyman (play) - Wikipedia

The Somonyng of Everyman ( The Summoning of Everyman), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play. Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress , Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_(play)

Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan - Wikipedia

Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (; McLachlan, February 22, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dale Cooper in (1990-1991; 2017) and its film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as well as roles in two of David Lynch's films: Paul Atreides in (1984) and Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet (1986).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_MacLachlan

David Lynch dune

Kwisatz Haderach

Muad'Dib

Oscar Isaac

Oscar Isaac - Wikipedia

Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is a Guatemalan and American actor. In 2006, he portrayed Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story . He also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor and corecipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Australian film , for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Isaac

Denis Villanuev

Denis Villeneuve - Wikipedia

Denis Villeneuve ( French: [dəni vilnœv]; born October 3, 1967) is a French Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best Direction, winning for in 2001, Polytechnique in 2009, in 2010 and in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Villeneuve

Brutalism

Brutalist architecture - Wikipedia

Brutalist architecture is an architectural style which emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

spice

Psychedelia

Psychedelia - Wikipedia

Psychedelia refers to the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience. This includes psychedelic art, psychedelic music and style of dress during that era. This was primarily generated by people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) and also non-users who were participants and aficionados of this subculture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia

Alejandro Jodorowasky

Alejandro Jodorowsky - Wikipedia

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean-French filmmaker and artist. Since 1948, he has worked as a novelist, screenwriter, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a film and theater director and producer, an actor, a film editor, a comics writer, a musician and composer, a philosopher, a puppeteer, a mime, a lay psychologist, a draughtsman, a painter, a sculptor, and a spiritual guru.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky

Jodoroskys dune

sublime

Art and the Sublime | Tate

Scholars have debated the term 'sublime' in the field of aesthetics for centuries. Many more artists, writers, poets and musicians have sought to evoke or respond to it. But what is the sublime? Is it a thing, a feeling, an event or a state of mind?

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/art-and-sublime

Sublime - Art Term | Tate

The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/sublime

MENA North African / West Asian cultures

MENA - Wikipedia

MENA is an English-language acronym referring to the Middle East and North Africa . It is alternatively called the WANA, referring to larger West Asia and North Africa region. The MENA acronym is often used in academia, military planning, disaster relief, media planning as a broadcast region, and business writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA

Feyd-Rautha/ sting in lynch

Why 'Dune's most iconic villain isn't in Denis Villeneuve's movie

's most famous fight has been cut. Well, sort of. In David Lynch's bombastic adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) has to beat the henchman of House Harkonnen, the sadistic Feyd (Sting), in hand-to-hand combat. It's a thrilling, memorable scene - almost as memorable as Sting's abs, seen earlier in the film.

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/feyd-rautha-dune-villain-denis-villeneuve

Why 'Dune's most iconic villain isn't in Denis Villeneuve's movie

Ezra Miller

Ezra Miller - Wikipedia

Ezra Matthew Miller (born September 30, 1992) is an American actor. Miller's feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008). They starred as Kevin in the drama We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and co-starred in the film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Miller

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton - Wikipedia

Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades throughout her career, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilda_Swinton

The French Dispatch

The Grand Budapest

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL - Official Wolrdwide Trailer HD

Wes Anderson's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Mou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL - Official Wolrdwide Trailer HD

Darjeeling Limited

Life aquatic

Royal tenenbauns

Moonrise kingdom

Isle of dogs

Bottle rocket

Digital Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro: The Real-World Guide to Set Up and Workflow

Seong-Yoon Hong

Hong-Seung Yoon - IMDb

Hong-Seung Yoon, Director: Canola

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3460905/

The Matrix Ressurections

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves - Wikipedia

Keanu Charles Reeves ( kee-AH-noo ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves

Lana Wachowski

The Wachowskis - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis

Cloud Atlas

speed racer

Sense 8

Scream

The People Under The Stairs

Dante’s Inferno

Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

Inferno ( Italian: ; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy . It is followed by Purgatorio and . The Inferno describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)

Katanagatari

Katanagatari - Wikipedia

Katanagatari is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Take. The series is published by Kodansha under the Kodansha Box imprint. The story revolves around a katanagari, or " sword hunt" for 12 weapons that were created by a single swordsmith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katanagatari

Monogatari / Bakemonogatari

Monogatari (series) - Wikipedia

Monogatari Genre Light novel Written by Nisio Isin Illustrated by Vofan Published by Kodansha English publisher Imprint Kodansha Box Magazine Mephisto (2005-2006) Pandora (2008) Bessatsu (2013) [5] Original run August 10, 2005 - August 19, 2021 Volumes 28 ( List of volumes) Anime television series Directed by Produced by Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogatari_(series)

Feed by. Aveda Vice

Feed (Hunger Duet, #1)

This monster wants to get under more than just her skin... Avirin has a dirty little secret. She hates her fae coworker - but that's n...

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57957051-feed

Skin by. Aveda Vice

Skin (Fangs With Benefits #2)

Skin book. Read 160 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This monster is the only one who can touch her...The last time Harbinger fel...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58289811-skin

Aveda vice

Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux

Her Soul for Revenge (Souls Trilogy, #2)

Yes! Yes! Unfortunately, Harley announced yesterday that the paperbacks won't be available in time for release date, but we are definitely getting them sooUnfortunately, Harley announced yesterday that the paperbacks won't be available in time for release date, but we are definitely getting them soon!(less) ...more

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58930992-her-soul-for-revenge

Her Soul for Revenge (Souls Trilogy, #2)

God of mischief Melody Rose

God of Mischief (Gods of Asgard, #1)

DNF @ 22% I knew this would have non-consensual sex in it, at least at the beginning. This didn't bother me. What bothered me is that Freya and Loki deduce that Astrid is a demigod, and suddenly Loki pulls a complete one-eighty.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55016903-god-of-mischief

There are no saints by. Sophie Lark

There Are No Saints (Sinners Duet, #1)

3.5 stars I don't know if this book meant to be hilarious or not, but it was cracking me up from the first chapter til the last 😂 The premise of this book was pretty ... unique? interesting? i don't know exactly what is was, cause the blurb was very confusing, but i was intrigued nonetheless.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59009928-there-are-no-saints

The Dare by. Harley Laroux

The Dare

I'm not going to give this a star rating because I honestly really didn't enjoy this, but I think that has more to do with this not being the kink for me than the book being bad. I do think the writing was a little.. cheesy?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56635834-the-dare?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=fPLcP5qf0d&rank=1

Ring By. Koji Suzuki

Ring (Suzuki novel) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(Suzuki_novel)

The Hellbound heart by. Clive Barker

The Hellbound Heart - Wikipedia

The Hellbound Heart is a horror novella by Clive Barker, first published in November 1986 by Dark Harvest in the third volume in its Night Visions anthology series. The story features a hedonist criminal acquiring a mystical puzzle box, the Lemarchand Configuration, which can be used to summon the Cenobites, demonic beings who do not distinguish between pain and pleasure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellbound_Heart

House of leaves by. Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves - Wikipedia

House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books. A bestseller, it has been translated into a number of languages, and is followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

The case against Satan ray russell

A lady of Rooksgrave Nanor by. Kathryne Moon