For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting off with Hellzapoppin’ (1941), the highly-acclaimed cult classic meta-musical about a group of comedians who want to turn their romantic play into a movie, but are sick of romance clichés, so they spend the whole runtime mocking love-story conventions and breaking the fourth wall. According to critics, this film may hold the all-time record for most jokes in a movie. It has become a cult movie in recent years due to its highly self-referential and anarchic structure; it was a major influence on Mel Brooks’ filmography, containing much of the DNA of The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, etc. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded film of otherwise-undistinguished director H.C. Potter. Excellent reviews everywhere for this one, so we’ll give it a shot. After that, since The Raid (2011) was a hit on Friday, we will watch its even-better-reviewed and more-ambitious sequel, The Raid 2 (2014). This time, the protagonist, Rama, goes undercover to infiltrate the Jakarta criminal underworld. Uh-oh, he’s going too deep. Will he end up kicking a bunch of people in the face? Probably. This film is one of the highest-rated action films of the 2010s and the highest-rated Indonesian film on Letterboxd (though, as with the first, the director is Welsh transplant Gareth Evans.) Let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Hellzapoppin’: https://letterboxd.com/film/hellzapoppin/
• The Raid 2: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-raid-2/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Hellzapoppin’: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• The Raid 2: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/20625

CWs for Hellzapoppin’:

• Slapstick violence.
• Problematic ethnic caricatures.

CWs for The Raid 2:

• Protagonist is a cop.
• Blood and gore.
• Fist fights.
• Torture.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Decapitation.
• Bloody nose.
• Gun violence.
• Police brutality.
• Strangulation.
• Stabbing.
• Broken bones.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Profanity.
• Misogyny.
• Squashed heads.
• Finger mutilation.
• Death by falling.
• Eye mutilation.
• Death of parent.
• Audio gore.
• Misophonia.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Shaky cam.
• Flashing lights.

Links to movies:

• Hellzapoppin’: https://vimeo.com/904843687
• The Raid 2: https://vimeo.com/904650484