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The Walking Dead Universe RPG: "Free League Publishing today announced the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG on Kickstarter. The game invites you to explore the unforgiving, post-apocalyptic world of the dead, where you must learn to survive. Together.

The crowdfunding campaign for the highly anticipated tabletop roleplaying game has already reached its initial funding goal. It is now running through a long list of stretch goals, such as Atlanta area map, Bonus Archetype: The Criminal, custom dice, a threat meter, adventure maps, pre-generated characters based on the TV series and a solo mode, with more on the way.

Find out more at The Walking Dead Universe RPG Kickstarter-page!

We have seen many stories take place in The Walking Dead Universe - now, the time has come to see yours. No matter what impossible choices and daunting challenges you may encounter, the hardest choice will always be the same: Who are you going to be?...

Mubi's series Apocalypse Now is showing February 29 – April 13, 2020 on Mubi in the United States.Above: ThreadsIn 1959, an interviewer asked a 70-year-old T.S. Eliot whether he would today write his prophecy from 1925’s “The Hollow Men”:This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. He would not. The interviewer writes that “one reason is that while association of the H-bomb is irrelevant to it, it would today come to everyone’s mind. Another is that [Eliot] is not sure the world will end with either.” Perhaps we’ll face doom with a sigh of relief. Decades of Hollywood sturm-und-drang offer the violent spectacle of our own demise, magnifying latent death wish into popcorn fare. But do we truly crave annihilation, or do we just want something, anything, to change? The more powerless we feel about altering institutions, the more studio-sanctioned societal destruction seems to blare back at us.

Tagline: "The Closest You Ever Want to Come to Nuclear War is...Threads!" Director: Mick Jackson. Writer: Barry Hines. Cast: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May and Nicholas Lane. The original Threads debuted on BBC 2, in 1984. At that time, it was the most popular cable movie to date. In its debut, the film drew over 7 million viewers. The film, from BBC exec' and director Mick Jackson, covered a nuclear exchange between western nations and Russia. The results are truly terrifying. This re-release, through Severn Films, hosts a number of extras, including interviews with the crew. The story itself is a dire look at surviving a nuclear strike. It might be best to succumb to the initial blast. The visuals and the storytelling come across as authentic, thanks to several scientists and consultants. The tone, of the film, is light initially; but, it darkens after the strike. A difficult watch,...

A whimper or a bang. Does it really matter if we snuff the match with our fingers, or a blast of air from our lungs? And when that bomb drops, is that really it for the human race, or will it “rebuild” as we’re so optimistically told in countless disaster flicks? The correct answers are: “bang” is very bad, and if your idea of “rebuild” is devastating nuclear winters and forlorn dirt crops, build away. This bleaker than bleak view comes courtesy of a legendary and sobering BBC Two TV drama from 1984 called Threads, and Severin Films’ stellar Blu-ray shows a new generation what would really happen in the event of a nuclear attack. Spoiler slert: nothing good. At all.

Directed by Mick Jackson (L.A. Story) from a teleplay by Barry Hines (Kes), Threads aired in September of 1984, pulling in 7 million viewers on its initial showing with a...

Hey kids! Learn about the great time we’ll be having if the world powers plunge us into a nuclear winter! This post-atomic horror show traumatized England in 1984, and thanks to the liberal media magnate Ted Turner, even saw some airings in the U.S.. The most extreme prime-time response to Ronald Reagan’s heating up of the Cold War standoff, it remains an honest look at a possible grim future, that rubs our noses in the full consequences of a nuclear exchange.

Threads

Blu-ray

1984 / Color / 1:33 flat 16mm /

117 (112) min. / Street Date February 13, 2018 / 19.99

Starring: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierley, Rita May, Nicholas Lane, Jane Hazelgrove, Henry Moxon, June Broughton, Harry Beety, Ruth Holden, Patrick Allen (voice).

Cinematography: Andrew Dunn, Paul Morris

Film Editors: Donna Bickerstaff, Jim Latham

Visual Effects: Graham Brown, Peter Wragg

Written by Barry Hines

Produced and Directed by Mick Jackson

1965’s The War Game by Peter Watkins...

In 1984, a television movie played by the BBC scarred an entire generation. Directed by Mick Jackson (who went on to direct Chattahoochee, The Bodyguard, and Volcano) and written by Barry Hinds, Threads is a docudrama that portrayed the probable after-effects of a nuclear war. This includes the de-evolution of civilization, such as the loss of language, and the horrifying effects of fallout and nuclear winter. Threads stars Reece Dinsdale (Coronation Street), David Brierly (Doctor Who) and Karen Meagher in her debut, as the hapless, working-class Sheffield, England residents who must deal with the nightmare that is nuclear war. Performances are so real that you forget you're watching fiction, which is surely the point in a film like this. A great deal of research with consulting scientists such as Carl Sagan...

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