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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, there’s no special theme, just two more good flicks. First up is The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), a Western anthology from the Hextue-favorite Coen Bros. The six stories include a whole bunch of wacky Wild West antics, including gunslingers, bank robbers, prospectors, prostitutes, and a migrating wagon party. This is the Coens’ most popular film we haven’t watched yet, so let’s give it a whirl.

After that is High Fidelity (2000), a rom-com about a pair of record-store employees (John Cusack and Jack Black) who try to compensate for the emptiness of their lives with pedantic audiophile nerd-dom. After one of them is dumped for being boring, he seeks out his exes to find out where it all went wrong. Will he find love again, or be doomed to a life of vinyl pedantry? We’ll find out soon enough. Director is Stephen Frears, who is otherwise known for Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and, uhh, The Queen (2006). A lot of people like this one; hope they’re right.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs/
• High Fidelity: https://letterboxd.com/film/high-fidelity/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16761
• High Fidelity: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/28781

CWs for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs:

• Animal abandonment.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Death of horse.
• Dead animals.
• Death of pet.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Finger mutilation.
• Hanging.
• Asphyxiation.
• Choking.
• Body horror.
• Tooth damage.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Death by falling.
• Death of family member.
• Jump scares.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Spitting.
• Smoking.
• Suicide attempt.
• Suicide.
• Jump scares.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Babies.
• Ableism.
• Implied sex.
• Prostitution.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Drowning.
• Gun violence.
• Sad ending.

CWs for High Fidelity:

• Stalking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Tooth damage.
• Ableist slurs.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Abortion.
• Babies.
• “Sexual content”. Looks pretty tame to me, though.

Links to movies:

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: https://tankie.tube/w/bfLRvatFweXAcTGKWRcorN
• High Fidelity: https://tankie.tube/w/6eeNfw3xRmzb7eUQBqSjzd