DEF CON Movie Night YouTube Double Header: Kung Fury and Europa Report!

[sleestak]

DEF CON Movie Night rolls into 2021 with a YouTube simultaneous viewing of two fine films - the international sci-fi thriller Europa Report and the gloriously absurd Kung Fury! We hope you'll join us on the DC Discord (https://discord.gg/defcon) in movie-night text for a fun night at the movies. BYOTwizzlers!...

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Hard as it may be to believe, the Snowden revelations are over 7 years old. The news cycle has accelerated so much in the intervening years that it seems like a relic from a different age, a slower timeline where a big story could make headlines for weeks instead of getting buried by four equally unsettling...

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'The Most Dangerous Game' was made in 1932, but you can still hear its echoes in modern cinema. It's a surprisingly tense pre-code thriller about bored rich creeps who hunt humans for sport, and it walked so 'Predator' could run. Good fun, and a subtext that finds its way into movies a lot more often...

[sleestak]

Next week's movie will be the classic 80s hacker film 'War Games'.

"But how? Don't the terms and conditions at discord forbid sharing copyrighted content?"

Fair question.

If we showed the movie in discord, we could run into issues. However, 'War Games'...

[sleestak]

This week's movie night will feature the 2014 hacker movie 'Algorithm', and we'll be joined by the writer/director Jon Schiefer! Bring your questions and join us on Saturday at 8pm Pacific Time in the DEF CON Discord (https://discord.gg/defcon/) in channels movie-night-voice and movie-night-text....

[sleestak]

D.O.A. was ahead of its time. It's a pulpy noir, sure, but one that carries a genre-subverting payload. The murder victim whose case must be solved is the protagonist - a recently poisoned accountant who must find his own killers before a glowing toxin does him in.

There are plenty of...