Stream of Consciousness

Christmas Poll !

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 That Work.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington finds out that the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions when he tries to bring Christmas into his Halloween-centric ...

Pollvember 2025

Hi 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 returns to his hometown to find out who killed his brother. A mean, brutal crime film brimming with great performances and some surprising drama amidst all the bloodshed.

Who Wants to Ki...

OcTWOber Poll (The Spook-cond stream)

To 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 named Kagutaba."

VHS
A found footage horror anthology from about a decade ago that's pretty fun and has spawned a whole dang franchise that's still going.

The Tunnel
"An inves...

Spook-tober Poll-tergeist! '25

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 object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier." - IMDB.

Quiz Show: A dramatization of the quiz show scandals of...

August 2025 Poll !

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 action caper with some memorable stunts and absolutely insane needle drops.

Night Moves
Gene Hackman plays an ex-football player turned LA private investigator, who is hired to track down ...

July Poll 2025 !

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!

Gunbuster

Hey its been a while why not give it a shot? A very important piece of anime history, Hideaki Anno's filmography, and works interestingly as a precursor to Evangelion. I'd make a roadshow version ...

May Poll ! 25

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 gangster picture about the rise and fall of mobster Tony Camonte in 1920s Chicago. Starring Paul Muni, George Raft, Ann Dvorak, and a brief appearance by Boris Karloff! Directed by Howard Hawks (Bringi...

February Poll

For 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, and a bunch of recognizable character actors. Southern gothic tinged thriller about two lovers on the run from Diane Lane as Dern’s crazed stepmom.

Voyage of the Rock Aliens

Incredibly ch...

First Poll of 2025

Ask 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 New York criminal underworld. With Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, and Giancarlo Esposito, and directed by wild man Abel Ferrara.

Out of Sight

George Clooney and Jenn...

December Poll

As 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

Poll-vember 2024 !

Hi 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 obsessed with an espionage game called Cloak and Dagger, witnesses a real murder and gets involved in the pursuit of secret government plans. Its up to Davey and his imaginary friend superagent Jack Flac...

The Spooky Poll

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, this finds the son of Dr. Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) taking up the mantle of mad science with the assistance of the mysterious Ygor (Bela Lugosi). An agreeable followup that has a lot of elements Y...

September Poll!

Do 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 Noon
Gary Cooper stars as a town marshal who the townspeople refuse to help when a gang of killers hired to take him out is en route. Controversial in its time as a metaphor for refusing to name ...

August Poll

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 a pretty good time!

Revenge of the Ninja Sho Kosugi is a ninja whose family has been almost completely wiped out by rival clans. Now in America with his son, he must fight drug dealers in order...

July Poll !

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.

Murder in a Blue World

In a nightmarish future, a nurse (Sue Lyon) seduces troubled young men while her boyfriend is trying to turn violent criminals into model citizens. Spanish-French coprodu...

Poll-blematic June!

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 nun. Verhoeven is as gleefully gross as ever even if this is a recent outing.

Polyester

Distressed housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine) deals with an unfaithful husband, a pregnant dau...

Dance around the MAY POLL

How 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 intersecting into the story of a young man falling under the sway of a gangster’s moll. A notable critical failure at the time, now celebrated as one of Lynch’s best.

Rosemary’s
Baby Classic b...

Space Poll!

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 stranded on a prison planet, and must team up with the prisoners to fight the alien one last time. We’d be watching a variation on the ‘assembly cut’, which reflects where the movie was right before F...

Oh Jeez, Oh Fuck: The Poll

Oh. 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. You may have seen the trailer for this which features this classic exchange: “I come in peace.” [cocks gun] “You go in pieces!”

Night Screams
A slasher movie filmed and taking pla...

Polls. In. Space!

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 produced by Dino De Laurentiis, and directed by Fonda’s then husband Roger Vadim. Full of lavish sets, sexual innuendo, and bouncy 60s pop music.

Europa Report

The story of the f...

Happy Poll-idays? New Year New Poll!

To 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 love triangle develops around two achieving students and a strong willed girl from the big city. A very grounded and low key romantic drama, that was a training project for incoming Studio Ghibli animato...

December Poll

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 spirited away by a shadowy secret government agency. Starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes (Columbo, Mikey and Nicky), Amy Irving, and returning De Palma faves Charles Durning and the Phantom of the Parad...

November Poll!

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’s delivering. A fun thriller yarn with some visuals taken right from Run Lola Run. Written and directed by David Koepp, who wrote past SoC faves Carlito’s Way, Snake Eyes, and Mission Impossible, as...

Poll-feratu, Vampire Spooktacular!

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 the run breaks into a chateau, and gets more than he bargained for when mysterious aristocratic women arrive harboring a dark secret. A dreamlike erotic horror film as only the French can make ‘em. 2023-10-14 18:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post

September Poll!

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 we'll see you later in the month!

Dazed and Confused
A hangout movie if there ever was one. Its the last day of high school in Austin, Texas, and the year is 1976. From Richard Linklater, ...

August Poll!

'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 young girl comes of age against the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and the massive crackdown on individual rights (especially women’s rights) that followed. Based on Marjane Satrapi’s a...

July Poll !

Hey 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 Castle directed this cult sci-fi epic.

Supercop (aka Police Story 3)
Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong cop, who with the help of a Beijing Interpol inspector played by Michelle Yeoh,  has to ...

June: Crime Comedies!

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 (Lopez), while trying to make one last big score.

Midnight Run

A bounty hunter (Robert De Niro) tries to stay ahead of the mafia and the FBI in his pursuit of a former mafia accountant (Charl...

April Fools!

All 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 Shinjuku with sights on unleashing demons on the whole world. There’s plenty of gorgeously animated fights and fun monster designs, plus some uh… ‘borrowed’ plot elements from Star Wars and E...

March Poll !

Hey 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.  

Raising Cain (1992) John Lithgow plays a guy who snaps when he finds out his wife is having an affair, unlocking a dormant personality driven by evil. Should make for some fun overacting,...